Walnut Street Baptist Church
Walnut Street Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1143 S 3rd St in Louisville, KY 40203. It is one of 840 churches in Louisville, and one of 156 Baptist congregations in the city.
At Walnut Street Baptist Church we are joyfully centered on the gospel of Jesus Christ — the news that God reconciles sinners to Himself in Jesus, the Son of God, who lived, died, and rose again for the salvation of all those who put their faith in Him.
Serving since 2023 · Services in Chinese
1143 S 3rd St, Louisville, KY, 40203Service times
- Sunday 11am · School - Worship Service
Phone: (502) 589-5290 · Website: http://www.walnutstreet.org/
Walnut Street 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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Latest from Walnut Street Baptist Church Louisville's YouTube channel: Walnut Street's Worship - August 2, 2026 (all videos).
The community around Walnut Street Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of the people here live 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.
- Child Poverty: 47.0%
- Poverty Rate: 36.6% (25.8–47.3%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.3%
- Diabetes: 20.0%
- Obesity: 43.3%
- Unemployment: 8.5% (1.6–15.4%)
- 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 Walnut Street Baptist Church
- Peniel Revival Center — 0.1 mi away
- Fourth Avenue United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Central Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Louisville Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Fourth Avenue Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Church of Christ Scientist — 0.3 mi away
- Bible Believers Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Mark Coptic Orthodox Church Louisville KY — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Louis Bertrand Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Louisville Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Fourth Avenue Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Immanuel Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mount Moriah Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Dayspring Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
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