West Side Baptist Church
West Side Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Knoxville, TN 37921. It is one of 684 churches in Knoxville, and one of 128 Baptist congregations in the city.
Knoxville, TN, 37921West Side Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 3,871 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Tennessee — 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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The community around West Side Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and about a third of adults here carry depression. That is two thousand 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: 47.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 43.1%
- Depression: 34.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 28.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 20.8% (13.8–27.7%)
- Diabetes: 20.1%
- Poverty Rate: 26.1% (15.7–36.5%)
- Unemployment: 10.4% (4.2–16.9%)
- Child Poverty: 25.9% (7.0–44.8%)
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 West Side Baptist Church
- Tennessee Avenue Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Faith Independent Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Beaumont Avenue Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Western Heights Baptist Center — 0.4 mi away
- Virginia Avenue United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Grove City Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Believers Outreach Church — 0.5 mi away
- Lonsdale Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Burnside House Of Prayer — 0.6 mi away
- Emmaus Abbey Church — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Tennessee Avenue Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Faith Independent Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Beaumont Avenue Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Western Heights Baptist Center — 0.4 mi away
- Lonsdale Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
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