Union Baptist Church
Union Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 211 Schuylkill Avenue in Reading, PA 19601. It is one of 144 churches in Reading, and one of 6 Baptist congregations in the city.
211 Schuylkill Avenue, Reading, PA, 19601Union Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,478 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Pennsylvania — 71,417 across the United States on The Church Map.
Baptists pressed harder than anyone for religious liberty in America, and the freedom every other congregation on this map enjoys is partly what they won. They have carried believers' baptism and the priesthood of every believer to more of the world than almost anyone — and the Black Baptist church has repeatedly been the conscience of the whole nation.
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The community around Union Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 7 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 73.0%
- Obesity: 46.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.0%
- Poverty Rate: 36.2% (22.6–49.9%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 26.9%
- Diabetes: 19.2%
- Unemployment: 12.2% (6.2–18.3%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Reading city is served by 66 churches — about one congregation for every 1,433 residents.
Churches near Union Baptist Church
- Holy Trinity Church of God — 0.1 mi away
- Concilio Iglesia Pentecostal El Fin Se Acerca Inc. — 0.1 mi away
- God's Worship & Praise Temple — 0.3 mi away
- Zion Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 0.3 mi away
- Hope Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- St. Mark's United Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Christ Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away in West Reading, PA
- Holy Rosary Church — 0.4 mi away
- Hope of the Nations Christian Center — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Zion Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Iglesia Bautista Betania — 0.6 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- St John Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Action Chapel Pennsylvania — 1.5 mi away in West Reading, PA
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