Foster Avenue Baptist Church

Foster Avenue Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Louisville, KY 40215. It is one of 838 churches in Louisville, and one of 189 Baptist congregations in the city.

Louisville, KY, 40215

Foster 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 — 71,417 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 Foster Avenue Baptist Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 describe their own health as fair or poor. More than a third of adults live with obesity, 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.

  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.1%
  • Obesity: 42.8%
  • Depression: 28.9%
  • Poverty Rate: 27.1% (13.9–40.4%)
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.4% (8.3–24.5%)
  • Diabetes: 15.8%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

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

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