First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 200 S York St in Nicholasville, KY 40356-1561. It is one of 74 churches in Nicholasville, and one of 8 Baptist congregations in the city.
The first Negro church in Kentucky, and the first west of the Allegheny Mountains is what is known now as the First Baptist Church, located at the corner of Short and Deweese Streets, Lexington, Ky.
Serving since 1790
200 S York St, Nicholasville, KY, 40356-1561Phone: (859) 885-3983 · Website: https://baptisthistoryhomepage.com/ky.fayette.fbc.black.lex.html
First 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 — 71,420 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 Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. Nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.
- Obesity: 40.2%
- Depression: 28.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.2%
- Child Poverty: 23.0% (11.2–35.1%)
- Diabetes: 13.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Nicholasville Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Cornerstone Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- East Maple Street Christian — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Luke Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Catalyst Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Nicholasville Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- SonLight Fellowship Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- Revive Ministries — 0.3 mi away
- Nicholasville Apostolic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Turning Point Church — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Cornerstone Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Edgewood Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Porter Jessamine Station — 1.9 mi away
- Cornerstone Baptist Church — 2 mi away
- Sulphur Well Christian Church — 3.2 mi away
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