Antioch Missionary Baptist Church
Antioch Missionary Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 500 Clay Street in Houston, TX 77002. It is one of 3,337 churches in Houston, and one of 724 Baptist congregations in the city.
In 1866, members of Antioch worshiped under a “bush arbor” erected on the edge of Buffalo Bayou, and as membership grew, a box-house type structure was constructed at “Baptist Hill” (on the corner of Rusk and Bagby) for church ministry and service.
500 Clay Street, Houston, TX, 77002Service times
- Monday, Friday 7am
Phone: (713) 652-0738 · Website: http://www.antiochdowntown.com/
Antioch Missionary Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 7,378 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Texas — 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 Antioch Missionary Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 7 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. About 1 in 5 the people here live below the poverty line, and about 1 in 15 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. That is 2,100 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: 79.5%
- Poverty Rate: 19.9% (13.4–26.4%)
- Unemployment: 6.0% (2.1–10.0%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau (2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Antioch Missionary Baptist Church
- St. John Church — 0.3 mi away
- Bethel Baptist Chapel Church — 0.3 mi away
- Lakewood church — 0.3 mi away
- First United Methodist Church of Houston — 0.3 mi away
- The Church Of Latter-Day Cats — 0.3 mi away
- Lighthouse Houston Church — 0.3 mi away
- Rose of Sharon Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Houstons First Baptist Church Downtown — 0.4 mi away
- Bibleway Missionary Baptist church — 0.5 mi away
- Holy Cross Catholic Chapel — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Rose of Sharon Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Bibleway Missionary Baptist church — 0.5 mi away
- Mount Horeb Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- St John Missionary Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away