Friendship Baptist Church
Friendship Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1685 Harrison St in Memphis, TN 38108-1524. It is one of 1,544 churches in Memphis, and one of 427 Baptist congregations in the city.
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Part of American Baptist Convention
1685 Harrison St, Memphis, TN, 38108-1524Phone: (901) 452-8687 · Website: https://www.thefriendshipbaptistchurch.com/
Friendship 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 Friendship Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 2 in 3 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. That is 2,100 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.
- Child Poverty: 65.1% (47.1–83.1%)
- Obesity: 50.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 39.5%
- Poverty Rate: 37.7% (22.4–53.1%)
- Diabetes: 26.8%
- Unemployment: 15.2% (5.2–26.3%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 18.8% (9.5–28.0%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.9%
- Depression: 23.7%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Friendship Baptist Church
- Hollywood Street Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Marys Church — 0.3 mi away
- Revelation Christian Center — 0.3 mi away
- Real Life Ministries — 0.3 mi away
- New Bethel Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- United Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Old Land Mark Church of God in Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Breath of Life Christian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.5 mi away
- Messiah Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- New Bethel Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- United Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Messiah Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Golden Leaf Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Corinthian Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away