Bethel Primitive Baptist Church
Bethel Primitive Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Baton Rouge, LA 70805. It is one of 572 churches in Baton Rouge, and one of 125 Baptist congregations in the city.
Baton Rouge, LA, 70805Bethel Primitive Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,388 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Louisiana — 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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The community around Bethel Primitive Baptist Church
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. More than half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. That is 2,300 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.
- Food Insecurity: 59.2%
- Child Poverty: 52.3% (32.7–71.9%)
- Obesity: 51.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 46.0%
- Social Isolation: 43.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 42.9%
- Poverty Rate: 42.6% (30.7–54.5%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 39.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 37.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 31.2%
- Diabetes: 26.9%
- Depression: 27.2%
- Unemployment: 11.3% (2.0–21.3%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.4%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Baton Rouge city is served by 212 churches — about one congregation for every 1,006 residents.
Churches near Bethel Primitive Baptist Church
- Interdenominational Faith Assembly — 0.2 mi away
- Ministry of New Beginnings — 0.2 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 0.2 mi away
- Hollywood Street Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Jesus Name Apostolic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Calvary Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Unity Fellowship — 0.6 mi away
- First Unity Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Saint Gerard Majella Catholic Church — 0.7 mi away
- Hope Community United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- North Highlands Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Mount Canaan Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Trinity Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Promised Land Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Brookstown Baptist Church — 1 mi away
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