Fifth African Baptist Church
Fifth African Baptist Church is a Baptist church in New Orleans, LA 70115. It is one of 824 churches in New Orleans, and one of 266 Baptist congregations in the city.
New Orleans, LA, 70115Fifth African 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 Fifth African 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 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,200 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.
- Unemployment: 12.3% (1.3–23.9%)
- Social Isolation: 39.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.5%
- Depression: 28.4%
- Food Insecurity: 23.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.9%
- Poverty Rate: 20.3% (9.9–30.6%)
- Housing Insecurity: 18.7%
- Diabetes: 13.3%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
New Orleans city is served by 579 churches — about one congregation for every 657 residents.
Churches near Fifth African Baptist Church
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- Triumph Church and Kingdom of God in Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Pilgrim Progress Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church Number 2 — 0.1 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Fifth African Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Payne Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Zion United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Greater Pleasent Grove Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Greater Bright Morning Star Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Pilgrim Progress Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church Number 2 — 0.1 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Fifth African Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
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