First Baptist Church

First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 401 Gateway Avenue in Chattanooga, TN 37402. It is one of 478 churches in Chattanooga, and one of 120 Baptist congregations in the city.

Part of Cooperative Baptist Fellowship

401 Gateway Avenue, Chattanooga, TN, 37402

Phone: (423) 265-2257 · Website: https://fbcchattanooga.org/school-of-fine-arts/

First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 3,872 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Tennessee — 71,418 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 about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. Nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. That is 2,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.

  • Obesity: 40.3%
  • Poverty Rate: 28.3% (18.6–37.9%)
  • Depression: 27.4%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.4%
  • Diabetes: 17.0%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.1%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Chattanooga city is served by 236 churches — about one congregation for every 791 residents.

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