United Baptist Church
United Baptist Church is a church at 213 South Main Avenue in Scranton, PA 18504. It is one of 88 churches in Scranton.
213 South Main Avenue, Scranton, PA, 18504United 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 United Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 describe their own health as fair or poor. Nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.9%
- Poverty Rate: 24.3% (15.5–33.1%)
- Obesity: 38.3%
- Depression: 25.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.4%
- Diabetes: 13.4%
- Unemployment: 7.9% (3.1–13.0%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Scranton city is served by 33 churches — about one congregation for every 2,306 residents.
Churches near United Baptist Church
- Trinity Congregational Church — 0 mi away
- Iglesia Pentecostal Rey De Reyes — 0.1 mi away
- Jackson St Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Community of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- St Patrick Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- St Joseph Melkite Greek Catholic — 0.3 mi away
- First United Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- St Ann's Maronite Church — 0.3 mi away
- Salvation Apostolic Temple Church — 0.3 mi away
- St Michael's RC Church Traditional Rite — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Jackson St Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Hickory St Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Open Door Church — 1.2 mi away
- Saint John the Baptist Catholic Church — 1.8 mi away in Taylor, PA
- New Life Baptist Church — 2.1 mi away
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