New Salem Baptist Church
New Salem Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Baton Rouge, LA 70802. It is one of 548 churches in Baton Rouge, and one of 117 Baptist congregations in the city.
To teach and nurture the church body in learning and understanding the Word of God, and to evangelize Jesus Christ's message of salvation to the world!
Baton Rouge, LA, 70802Website: http://newsalembatonrouge.weebly.com/
Shares a ministry location with Deliverance Temple.
New Salem Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around New 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 a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 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.
- Food Insecurity: 34.4%
- Poverty Rate: 31.8% (18.9–44.7%)
- Housing Insecurity: 26.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.4%
- Diabetes: 18.1%
- Obesity: 42.7%
- Social Isolation: 39.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 17.4%
- Depression: 25.4%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Baton Rouge city is served by 212 churches — about one congregation for every 1,006 residents.
Churches near New Salem Baptist Church
- Deliverance Temple — 0 mi away
- The Gate Church at Addis — 0.1 mi away in Port Allen, LA
- Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church BR — 0.1 mi away
- Gethsemane Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- True Vine Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Little Rock Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- The Grace House Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Zion First Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Agnes Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away