National Avenue Baptist Church
National Avenue Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1348 National St in Memphis, TN 38122. It is one of 1,547 churches in Memphis, and one of 382 Baptist congregations in the city.
1348 National St, Memphis, TN, 38122Service times
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 8am
Phone: (888) 785-0500
National Avenue 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.
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The community around National Avenue Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 3 in 4 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: 74.2% (54.3–94.1%)
- Obesity: 49.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 44.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 32.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 26.8% (17.8–35.7%)
- Diabetes: 23.3%
- Depression: 28.5%
- Poverty Rate: 28.4% (17.1–39.7%)
- Unemployment: 10.3% (3.6–17.0%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Memphis city is served by 1,033 churches — about one congregation for every 596 residents.
Churches near National Avenue Baptist Church
- Jackson Avenue Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Up From The World Ministries — 0.1 mi away
- Leawood Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Ellis Grove Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Wesleyan Evangelical Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.5 mi away
- Iglesia La Buena Esperanza — 0.5 mi away
- Calvary Church of God in Christ — 0.5 mi away
- Iglesia Nueva Vida — 0.6 mi away
- Highland Heights Church of Christ — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Leawood Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Ellis Grove Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Leawood Baptist Prayer Tower — 0.6 mi away
- Peace Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Saint Johns Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away