University Baptist Church
University Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 2121 E 131st Ave in Tampa, FL 33612-3765. It is one of 894 churches in Tampa, and one of 33 Baptist congregations in the city.
The University Baptist Church partners with the University Area Community Development Corporation, and others, to meet the challenges of revitalization in the University Area.
Services in Spanish
2121 E 131st Ave, Tampa, FL, 33612-3765Phone: +18139717648 · Website: https://www.ubctampa.org/
University 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 University Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,400 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: 39.8% (27.2–52.5%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 29.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 28.0% (18.7–37.2%)
- Diabetes: 16.0%
- Obesity: 39.2%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
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