Central Baptist Church
Central Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Memphis, TN 38109. It is one of 1,544 churches in Memphis, and one of 427 Baptist congregations in the city.
Memphis, TN, 38109Central 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 Central Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 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 more than 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: 53.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 44.0%
- Poverty Rate: 39.3% (23.3–55.2%)
- Diabetes: 31.1%
- Unemployment: 18.7% (8.3–29.2%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 18.8% (11.6–26.1%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.4%
- Depression: 24.0%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Memphis city is served by 1,033 churches — about one congregation for every 596 residents.
Churches near Central Baptist Church
- Jesus Is the Way Church of God in Christ — 0 mi away
- Omega Temple Church of Jesus — 0.1 mi away
- House of the Lord Church of God in Christ Holiness — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Gilead Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Riverview Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Oak Grove Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Bethlehem Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Rock of Ages Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Wayman Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mount Gilead Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Oak Grove Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Bethlehem Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Rock of Ages Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away