First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Knoxville, IA 50138. It is one of 33 churches in Knoxville, and one of 3 Baptist congregations in the city.
Knoxville, IA, 50138First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 601 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Iowa — 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 on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around First Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 43.4%
- Social Isolation: 33.2%
- Depression: 23.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.0%
- Food Insecurity: 15.8%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Knoxville city is served by 21 churches — about one congregation for every 114 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Anthony Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Celebrate Community Church — 0.5 mi away
- Church of God — 0.8 mi away
- Victory Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.9 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.9 mi away
- Apostolic Church — 0.9 mi away
- Knoxville Christian Church — 1 mi away
- Assembly of God Church — 1.1 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Victory Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Faith Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away
- Pleasantville Baptist Church — 8.5 mi away in Pleasantville, IA
- Pleasantville Baptist Church — 9 mi away in Pleasantville, IA
- First Baptist Church — 11 mi away in Pella, IA