New Salem Baptist Church
New Salem Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Baton Rouge, LA 70802. It is one of 572 churches in Baton Rouge, and one of 163 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. 2,378 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Louisiana — 71,417 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 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
More Baptist churches nearby
- 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
- Mount Zion First Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
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