Greater Salem Baptist Church
Greater Salem Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1009 West Chestnut Street in Louisville, KY 40203. It is one of 840 churches in Louisville, and one of 156 Baptist congregations in the city.
1009 West Chestnut Street, Louisville, KY, 40203Website: https://greatersalembaptist.org/about-us
Greater Salem Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,781 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Kentucky — 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.
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The community around Greater Salem 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 2 in 3 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than half of the people here live below the poverty line. 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.
- Child Poverty: 70.9% (52.6–89.3%)
- Poverty Rate: 56.4%
- Obesity: 51.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 40.0%
- Unemployment: 22.9% (10.2–35.5%)
- Diabetes: 19.9%
- Depression: 26.5%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Louisville city is served by 321 churches — about one congregation for every 729 residents.
Churches near Greater Salem Baptist Church
- Chestnut Street Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Church of Our Merciful Saviour — 0.2 mi away
- Brown Memorial Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Broadway Temple African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Augustine Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Peters Evangelical Church — 0.4 mi away
- Israel Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Joshua Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Facts of Faith Fellowship Ministries — 0.5 mi away
- First Samuel Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Chestnut Street Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Israel Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Joshua Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Samuel Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- King Solomon Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
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