Friendship Baptist Church
Friendship Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Memphis, TN 38107. It is one of 1,547 churches in Memphis, and one of 382 Baptist congregations in the city.
Memphis, TN, 38107Website: http://www.friendshipmemphis.org/index.html
Friendship 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.
Find Friendship Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Friendship Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes. That is 2,200 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.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.2%
- Diabetes: 21.4%
- Unemployment: 18.9% (7.8–30.1%)
- Obesity: 44.5%
- Poverty Rate: 24.3% (14.7–34.0%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.8% (8.5–23.1%)
- Depression: 24.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.3%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Memphis city is served by 1,033 churches — about one congregation for every 596 residents.
Churches near Friendship Baptist Church
- Klondike Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Moore Memorial Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Apostolic Pentecostal Church of Jesus Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Emmanuel Home Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Payne Chapel Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Greater Payne Chapel AME Church — 0.3 mi away
- Smothers Chapel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Christ Chapel Church of God in Christ — 0.3 mi away
- New Fellowship Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Joseph Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Emmanuel Home Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Fellowship Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Joseph Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Keel Avenue Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Allen Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away