First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 48 South River Street in Wilkes-Barre, PA 18701. It is one of 82 churches in Wilkes-Barre, and one of 8 Baptist congregations in the city.
48 South River Street, Wilkes-Barre, PA, 18701First 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 — 71,418 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 First Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 adults here carry depression. About 1 in 7 the people here live below the poverty line. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Depression: 26.1%
- Poverty Rate: 16.8% (9.3–24.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Wilkes-Barre city is served by 54 churches — about one congregation for every 820 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Saint Stephen's Episcopal Church — 0 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Church on the Square — 0.2 mi away
- Iglesia Nueva Vida En Cristo — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Mary's Church of the Immaculate Conception — 0.3 mi away
- Good Shepherd Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- Iglesia Pentecostal Leon de Juda — 0.4 mi away
- St. Nicholas Roman Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Wyoming Valley — 0.5 mi away
- Our Lady Of Fatima Grotto — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mt. Zion Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Wesley Chapel Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Meade Street Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Berean Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
- St. John the Baptist Byzantine Catholic Church — 1.7 mi away
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