Where is First Baptist Church located?

First Baptist Church is at 5 Oak Street, Asheville, NC, 28801.

What denomination is First Baptist Church?

First Baptist Church in Asheville, NC is a Baptist church. It is one of 24 Baptist congregations in Asheville.

First Baptist Church

First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 5 Oak Street in Asheville, NC 28801. It is one of 225 churches in Asheville, and one of 24 Baptist congregations in the city.

5 Oak Street, Asheville, NC, 28801

First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 4,587 congregations of the Baptist family gather across North Carolina — 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 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.

Poverty Rate: 25.6% (15.6–35.7%)
Social Isolation: 30.2%
Depression: 25.7%
Food Insecurity: 15.2%
Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.0% (4.5–21.5%)
Unemployment: 6.5% (0.5–12.4%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.

Asheville city is served by 77 churches — about one congregation for every 902 residents.

Churches near First Baptist Church

First Congregational Church — 0.1 mi away
St James AME Church — 0.2 mi away
Hopkins Chapel AME Zion Church — 0.2 mi away
Ever Learning Faith Ministries — 0.3 mi away
Calvary Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
Nazareth First Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
St Marks Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
Christian Science Reading Room — 0.5 mi away
First Presbyterian Church — 0.5 mi away

More Baptist churches nearby

Nazareth First Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
Tried Stone Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
Brookstone Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
Merrimon Avenue Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
Morningside Baptist Church — 1 mi away

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