Gillespie Avenue Baptist Church
Gillespie Avenue Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Knoxville, TN 37917. It is one of 684 churches in Knoxville, and one of 78 Baptist congregations in the city.
Knoxville, TN, 37917Gillespie Avenue Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 3,860 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Tennessee — 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 Gillespie Avenue Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults here carry depression. Nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor, and about 1 in 5 the people here live without health insurance. 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.
- Depression: 32.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 18.1% (10.4–25.8%)
- Diabetes: 16.0%
- Unemployment: 8.1% (2.3–13.9%)
- Obesity: 39.0%
- Child Poverty: 22.1% (5.3–38.9%)
- Poverty Rate: 19.6% (12.8–26.3%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.3%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Knoxville city is served by 226 churches — about one congregation for every 868 residents.
Churches near Gillespie Avenue Baptist Church
- Soul Harvest Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- Family Bible Church — 0.3 mi away
- Hoitt Avenue Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- City View Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Christ Embassy Tennessee — 0.4 mi away
- Knoxville Connect Church — 0.5 mi away
- North Knoxville Church of God — 0.5 mi away
- Peace and Goodwill Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Sixth Avenue Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Fourth United Presbyterian Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- City View Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Peace and Goodwill Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Sixth Avenue Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Washington Pike Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Bethany Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
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