First Virginia Avenue Baptist Church

First Virginia Avenue Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Louisville, KY 40211. It is one of 838 churches in Louisville, and one of 189 Baptist congregations in the city.

Louisville, KY, 40211

First Virginia Avenue 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 — 71,419 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 Virginia 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 half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. That is 2,100 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: 50.9%
  • Child Poverty: 42.4% (23.8–61.0%)
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 38.1%
  • Poverty Rate: 33.9% (20.5–47.2%)
  • Diabetes: 24.8%
  • Unemployment: 12.9% (4.1–21.9%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Louisville city is served by 321 churches — about one congregation for every 729 residents.

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