Southside Baptist Church

Southside Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Baton Rouge, LA 70808. It is one of 572 churches in Baton Rouge, and one of 125 Baptist congregations in the city.

Baton Rouge, LA, 70808

Service times

  • Sunday 9:15am · School

Phone: (225) 665-5868

Shares a ministry location with Christ Covenant Church and Korean Church of Central Baton Rouge.

Southside Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,388 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Louisiana — 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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The community around Southside Baptist Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. That is two thousand 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.

  • Social Isolation: 32.4%
  • Depression: 28.1%
  • Poverty Rate: 18.8% (9.1–28.6%)

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.

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