Greater Middle Baptist Church
Greater Middle Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Memphis, TN 38118. It is one of 1,544 churches in Memphis, and one of 427 Baptist congregations in the city.
Endeavoring for excellence in Word and worship for the glory of Christ Jesus.
Greater Middle Baptist Church is one of the three oldest churches in Memphis, Tennessee, with history dating back to the early 1830s. Today, at 194 years old, Greater Middle Baptist is still serving Memphis communities with the love and compassion of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
Memphis, TN, 38118Service times
- Sunday 10:45am · School
Phone: (901) 367-0103 · Website: http://www.greatermiddlebaptistchurch.org/
Greater Middle 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.
Find Greater Middle Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Greater Middle Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes. That is 2,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 47.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.2%
- Diabetes: 19.9%
- Poverty Rate: 29.5% (17.5–41.5%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.6% (8.7–22.4%)
- Unemployment: 10.9% (4.6–17.2%)
- Depression: 25.1%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Memphis city is served by 1,033 churches — about one congregation for every 596 residents.
Churches near Greater Middle Baptist Church
- Parkway Village Church — 0.1 mi away
- Living Water Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Holy Mountain Church — 0.4 mi away
- Memphis Christian Center — 0.6 mi away
- Cottonwood Heights Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Universal Outreach Ministries — 0.6 mi away
- Saint Johns Church — 0.7 mi away
- House of Prayer Church — 0.7 mi away
- Oakville Missionary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Park Village Christian Church — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Cottonwood Heights Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Oakville Missionary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Kensington Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Olivet Fellowship Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Golden Rule Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away