First Baptist Church of West Tampa
First Baptist Church of West Tampa is a Baptist church in Tampa, FL 33607. It is one of 894 churches in Tampa, and one of 63 Baptist congregations in the city.
Tampa, FL, 33607First Baptist Church of West Tampa is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 3,713 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Florida — 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.
Find First Baptist Church of West Tampa on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around First Baptist Church of West Tampa
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 1 in 7 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, and nearly a quarter of 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 families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Unemployment: 13.5% (8.3–18.8%)
- Poverty Rate: 26.1% (18.5–33.7%)
- Depression: 23.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.8% (11.0–18.3%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Tampa city is served by 211 churches — about one congregation for every 1,806 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church of West Tampa
- Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints — 0.2 mi away
- The Holiness Church of Jesus In Unity, Inc. — 0.2 mi away
- Beulah Baptist Institutional Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Vernon Primitive Baptist — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Olive African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mount Pleasant Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mt. Pleasant Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Christ of Calvary Community Church — 0.5 mi away
- New Bright and Morning Star M.B. Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Beulah Baptist Institutional Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Vernon Primitive Baptist — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Pleasant Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mt. Pleasant Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Bright and Morning Star M.B. Church — 0.5 mi away