Waters Avenue Baptist Church
Waters Avenue Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Tampa, FL 33604. It is one of 894 churches in Tampa, and one of 63 Baptist congregations in the city.
Tampa, FL, 33604Waters Avenue 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 Waters Avenue Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Waters Avenue 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 a quarter of working-age adults live without health insurance, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 27.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 19.5% (12.8–26.3%)
- Diabetes: 17.5%
- Obesity: 37.6%
- Poverty Rate: 18.9% (11.7–26.2%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Tampa city is served by 211 churches — about one congregation for every 1,806 residents.
Churches near Waters Avenue Baptist Church
- Iglesia Vida Nueva Upci — 0.1 mi away
- Center of Transformation Church — 0.2 mi away
- Iglesia Cristiana Misionera Peniel — 0.3 mi away
- St. Philip the Apostle Orthodox Church — 0.5 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 0.5 mi away
- Fraternidad Cristiana de Avivamiento Internacional — 0.5 mi away
- Breakthrough Ministries — 0.5 mi away
- World Champions Church — 0.5 mi away
- Shekinah Harvest Breakthrough Church International Ministries — 0.6 mi away
- Gospel Baptist Church of Tampa — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Tampa Church Planting — 0.6 mi away
- Faith Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away
- Korean First Baptist Mission — 1.6 mi away
- The Way Church of Tampa Bay — 1.7 mi away
- El-Bethel Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away