New Friendship Baptist Church
New Friendship Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Memphis, TN 38126. It is one of 1,547 churches in Memphis, and one of 382 Baptist congregations in the city.
Memphis, TN, 38126New Friendship 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 New Friendship 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. More than 4 in 5 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Child Poverty: 82.6%
- Obesity: 49.6%
- Poverty Rate: 45.8% (29.6–62.0%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.9%
- Diabetes: 23.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.6%
- Depression: 26.1%
- Unemployment: 7.8% (1.6–15.5%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 7 census tracts near this church.
Memphis city is served by 1,033 churches — about one congregation for every 596 residents.
Churches near New Friendship Baptist Church
- Brighter Day Word Church — 0.1 mi away
- Canaan Church of God in Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Belmount Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Christ's Community Church — 0.1 mi away
- Greater Mt Hermon MB Church — 0.2 mi away
- Temple of Praise Ministry — 0.3 mi away
- Emmanuel Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- House of Prayer — 0.3 mi away
- Miracle Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Greater Beulah Land Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Belmount Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Christ's Community Church — 0.1 mi away
- Miracle Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Greater Beulah Land Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church Lauderdale — 0.4 mi away