First Baptist Church Beale Street
First Baptist Church Beale Street is a Baptist church at 379 Beale Street in Memphis, TN 38103. It is one of 1,532 churches in Memphis, and one of 379 Baptist congregations in the city.
379 Beale Street, Memphis, TN, 38103First Baptist Church Beale Street is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around First Baptist Church Beale Street
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is 2,100 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.
- Poverty Rate: 33.2% (20.0–46.4%)
- Obesity: 41.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 20.2%
- Depression: 25.0%
- Diabetes: 13.3%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Memphis city is served by 1,033 churches — about one congregation for every 596 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church Beale Street
- Pentecostal Temple COGIC — 0.1 mi away
- Pentecostal Temple Church of God in Christ — 0.1 mi away
- St. Patrick Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Patricks Church — 0.2 mi away
- AME Department Church Growth and Development — 0.2 mi away
- Progressive Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Downtown Church Memphis — 0.3 mi away
- Second Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Olive Christian Methodist Episcopal Cathedral — 0.3 mi away
- Fellowship Memphis - Downtown — 0.4 mi away