First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 2590 Riverside Drive in Bassett, VA 24055. It is one of 43 churches in Bassett, and one of 4 Baptist congregations in the city.
The Historic First Baptist Church of Williamsburg, Virginia welcomes all who enter to experience a sacred legacy of worship, community, history, and hope — a lasting witness to faith, freedom, and God’s enduring grace since 1776.
Wheelchair accessible
2590 Riverside Drive, Bassett, VA, 24055Service times
- Sunday 9:45am · School
- Monday 9am · Labor Day 2026
- Monday 7pm · Labor Day 2026
- Monday 12am
- Sunday 9am · Women s Day Celebration
- Sunday 11am
Phone: (276) 627-0278 · Website: https://www.firstbaptistbassett.com/
First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,736 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Virginia — 71,872 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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Latest from Historic First Baptist Church of Williamsburg's YouTube channel: Sunday School, 1st Sunday, August 2, 2026 (all videos).
The community around First Baptist Church
In the few miles around this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, 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 the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Diabetes: 18.5%
- Obesity: 41.6%
- Social Isolation: 33.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.6%
- Food Insecurity: 20.5%
- Depression: 25.2%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Pocahontas Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- House of Purpose Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- Memorial Church — 0.3 mi away
- Grace Chapel Ministries — 0.4 mi away
- First Church Of Mercy — 0.4 mi away
- Bassett Church of the Brethren — 0.6 mi away
- Bassett Baptist Tabernacle — 0.7 mi away
- Star Bethlehem Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away in Basset, VA
- Oak Hill Church — 0.7 mi away
- Full Gospel Holiness Church — 0.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Pocahontas Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Bassett Baptist Tabernacle — 0.7 mi away
- Star Bethlehem Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away in Basset, VA
- Stanleytown's Amazing Grace Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away in Stanleytown, VA
- Fort Trial Church — 3.1 mi away