First African Baptist Church
First African Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 465 Price Road in Lexington, KY 40508. It is one of 286 churches in Lexington, and one of 42 Baptist congregations in the city.
465 Price Road, Lexington, KY, 40508Website: http://www.fabclex.org/
First African Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,797 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Kentucky — 71,420 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 First African 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. 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 families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.4%
- Diabetes: 18.8%
- Obesity: 44.2%
- Poverty Rate: 29.8% (14.0–45.5%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.1% (7.5–22.7%)
- Depression: 23.5%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Lexington-Fayette urban county is served by 120 churches — about one congregation for every 2,677 residents.
Churches near First African Baptist Church
- House of God — 0.2 mi away
- Bluegrass United Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Iglesia Cristiana Pentecostes Monte Sinai — 0.2 mi away
- Lexington Lima Drive Seventh-day Adventist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Glen Arvin Ave Church Of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Bethel Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Lexington Bible Believers Assembly — 0.5 mi away
- Greater Grace Apostolic Church — 0.5 mi away
- Church of God In Jesus Name — 0.6 mi away
- Quinn Chapel AME Church — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Bethel Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Meadowthorpe Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Imani Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Thompson Road Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Pilgrim Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
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