Greater Calvary Baptist Church
Greater Calvary Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Memphis, TN 38105. It is one of 1,544 churches in Memphis, and one of 427 Baptist congregations in the city.
Memphis, TN, 38105Greater Calvary 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 Greater Calvary 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. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.
- Obesity: 46.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.0%
- Poverty Rate: 30.8% (19.3–42.4%)
- Diabetes: 22.1%
- Unemployment: 9.3% (2.3–16.5%)
- Depression: 24.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.5%
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 Greater Calvary Baptist Church
- Hopewell Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Lake Grove Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Burning Bush Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Emmanuel Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Marys Episcopal Cathedral — 0.3 mi away
- Collins Chapel — 0.3 mi away
- Calvary Street Ministry — 0.4 mi away
- Columbus Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Providence African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Friendship Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Hopewell Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Lake Grove Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Burning Bush Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Emmanuel Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Columbus Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away