Centennial Baptist Church
Centennial Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 229 Chelsea Avenue in Memphis, TN 38107. It is one of 1,544 churches in Memphis, and one of 427 Baptist congregations in the city.
229 Chelsea Avenue, Memphis, TN, 38107Centennial 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 Centennial 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. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.
- Obesity: 49.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.6%
- Poverty Rate: 31.5% (20.3–42.8%)
- Diabetes: 22.6%
- Unemployment: 14.7% (5.0–24.4%)
- Depression: 26.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.3% (6.4–18.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Memphis city is served by 1,033 churches — about one congregation for every 596 residents.
Churches near Centennial Baptist Church
- Number Seventh Street Church — 0.1 mi away
- United Methodist Neighborhood Centers of Memphis — 0.2 mi away
- Holy Community Church — 0.2 mi away
- Jacob's Well — 0.2 mi away
- Friendly Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Greater Kerr Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- True Holiness Lighhouse Church — 0.2 mi away
- Church of the First Born — 0.2 mi away
- Life Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Holy Names of Jesus and Mary Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Friendly Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Greater Kerr Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Austin Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Pleasant Green Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Holy Chapel Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away