First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Harahan, LA 70123. It is one of 16 churches in Harahan, and one of 3 Baptist congregations in the city.
Harahan, LA, 70123First 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 First Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. More than a third of adults live with obesity, 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 lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 35.3%
- Obesity: 39.4%
- Depression: 26.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.3%
- Food Insecurity: 16.0%
- Diabetes: 13.3%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Harahan city is served by 7 churches — about one congregation for every 1,291 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Holy Innocents Orthodox Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Pauls United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saints Fellowship Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Rita of Cascia Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Faith Lutheran Church — 0.6 mi away
- Comunidad Cristiano International — 0.9 mi away
- Jefferson Congregation of Jehovahs Witnesses — 1.1 mi away in River Ridge, LA
- River Ridge Assembly of God Church — 1.1 mi away
- All Saints Episcopal Church — 1.3 mi away
- Riverside Church — 1.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Riverside Church — 1.4 mi away
- Bridge City Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away in Westwego, LA
- Third Emanuel Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away in Westwego, LA
- Second Saint John the Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away in Westwego, LA
- Second Salvation Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away in Westwego, LA