Saint Matthews Baptist Church
Saint Matthews Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Tampa, FL 33605. It is one of 894 churches in Tampa, and one of 63 Baptist congregations in the city.
Tampa, FL, 33605Saint Matthews 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.
Find Saint Matthews Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Saint Matthews Baptist Church
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. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third 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.
- Obesity: 45.5%
- Poverty Rate: 37.4% (24.6–50.2%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.0%
- Diabetes: 22.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 22.0%
- Unemployment: 9.9% (5.2–14.7%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.2% (6.2–18.1%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), 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 Saint Matthews Baptist Church
- Good Shepherd Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Pleasant Chapel AME Church — 0.1 mi away
- Hood Temple AME Zion Church — 0.1 mi away
- Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church — 0.1 mi away
- Brown Temple Church of God — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Johns Greek Orthodox Church — 0.2 mi away
- Southwestern Florida Jurisdiction COGIC — 0.2 mi away
- Most Holy Redeemer Church — 0.2 mi away
- Kingdom of God and Christ Church — 0.2 mi away
- Reaching For Greater Hope Anointed Ministries Worship Center of Tampa — 0.2 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- New Friendship Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- St. John Cathedral — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Johns Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Beulah Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- New Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away