Fortieth Street Baptist Church
Fortieth Street Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Tampa, FL 33610. It is one of 894 churches in Tampa, and one of 63 Baptist congregations in the city.
Tampa, FL, 33610Fortieth Street Baptist Church 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.
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The community around Fortieth Street Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. About a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes. That is 2,200 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: 50.7% (36.3–65.1%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.3%
- Diabetes: 19.4%
- Obesity: 41.2%
- Poverty Rate: 22.0% (14.5–29.5%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 20.3%
- Unemployment: 8.6% (4.6–12.5%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.7% (9.3–20.1%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Tampa city is served by 211 churches — about one congregation for every 1,806 residents.
Churches near Fortieth Street Baptist Church
- Northside Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- The Rock Church of God by Faith — 0.4 mi away
- The First Christian Fellowship Assembly of God Church — 0.4 mi away
- Genesis Worship Center Of Tampa Bay, Inc — 0.5 mi away
- Abundant Life Enrichment Church — 0.5 mi away
- New Macedonia M. B. Church — 0.5 mi away
- Faith Community United Church — 0.6 mi away
- New Life International Church Inc — 0.6 mi away
- Hope of Shiloh PB Church — 0.6 mi away
- Kaotic Streetz Church — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Northside Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Hanani Missionary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Lighthouse Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Oak Hill Missionary Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away