Metropolitan Baptist Church
Metropolitan Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Memphis, TN 38126. It is one of 1,544 churches in Memphis, and one of 427 Baptist congregations in the city.
Memphis, TN, 38126Metropolitan 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 Metropolitan Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Metropolitan Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than 4 in 5 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than half of the people here live below the poverty line. 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: 85.6%
- Poverty Rate: 61.0% (44.7–77.2%)
- Obesity: 54.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 45.9%
- Diabetes: 29.3%
- Unemployment: 25.2% (12.1–38.3%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 20.7%
- Depression: 26.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.3% (6.2–16.4%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 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 Metropolitan Baptist Church
- Second Congregational Church — 0.1 mi away
- Bethel Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Evening Star Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Praise of Zion Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Harvest Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Greater Pure in Heart Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Market Place Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Covenant Restoring Ministries — 0.3 mi away
- Jerusalem Chapel — 0.3 mi away
- Greater New Salem Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Evening Star Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Praise of Zion Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Greater Pure in Heart Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Market Place Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Greater New Salem Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away