Temple Baptist Church
Temple Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 3501 N University Ave in Lafayette, LA 70507. It is one of 151 churches in Lafayette, and one of 20 Baptist congregations in the city.
3501 N University Ave, Lafayette, LA, 70507Phone: (337) 886-1555 · Website: https://templebaptistchurch.com/
Temple 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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Latest from Temple Baptist Church's YouTube channel: Sunday Evening Meeting of the Temple Baptist Church • September 13, 2026 (all videos).
The community around Temple Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is 2,100 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: 37.3%
- Food Insecurity: 22.5%
- Obesity: 36.5%
- Child Poverty: 28.5% (14.2–42.7%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.0%
- Depression: 25.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 17.5%
- Poverty Rate: 17.0% (8.6–25.4%)
- Diabetes: 13.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.7%
- Unemployment: 7.1% (0.5–13.8%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Temple Baptist Church
- Submerge Family Church — 1.2 mi away
- LIFEPOINT Church — 1.6 mi away in Carencro, LA
- Saint Peter Catholic Church — 1.7 mi away in Carencro, LA
- Christ Gospel Church — 1.8 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away in Carencro, LA
- World Harvest Lighthouse Church — 1.9 mi away
- Living Glory Church — 2 mi away
- Our Lady of the Assumption Catholic Church — 2.3 mi away in Carencro, LA
- Congregation of Christ the King Roman Catholic Church — 2.4 mi away
- Northwood United Methodist Church — 2.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away in Carencro, LA
- Calvary Baptist Church — 2.7 mi away
- Mount Bethel Baptist Church — 3.8 mi away
- Vatican Baptist Church — 3.9 mi away in Carencro, LA
- Philadelphia Christian Church — 3.9 mi away
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