Oakland Baptist Church
Oakland Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1226 Algonquin Parkway in Louisville, KY 40208. It is one of 838 churches in Louisville, and one of 189 Baptist congregations in the city.
1226 Algonquin Parkway, Louisville, KY, 40208Website: https://www.oakland-baptistchurch.com/staff.html
Oakland 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 Oakland Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 8 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. More than half of the people here live below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 87.0%
- Poverty Rate: 61.3%
- Obesity: 52.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 43.9%
- Unemployment: 26.6% (13.4–39.9%)
- Diabetes: 22.1%
- Depression: 29.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.6%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Louisville city is served by 321 churches — about one congregation for every 729 residents.
Churches near Oakland Baptist Church
- First Gethsemane Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Emmanuel Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Church of the Living God Temple Number 30 — 0.2 mi away
- Saint John African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Kingdom Land Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Zion Hope Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Ignite UofL Campus Ministry — 0.8 mi away
- M Street Church of Christ — 0.8 mi away
- Brighter Day Missionary Baptist — 0.8 mi away
- Bethlehem United Church of Christ — 0.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Kingdom Land Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Brighter Day Missionary Baptist — 0.8 mi away
- N Street Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Third Avenue Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Bible Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
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