Norris Avenue Baptist Church
Norris Avenue Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Memphis, TN 38106. It is one of 1,544 churches in Memphis, and one of 427 Baptist congregations in the city.
Memphis, TN, 38106Norris Avenue 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 — 71,420 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 Norris Avenue Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Norris Avenue Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and more than a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is two thousand 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: 48.1%
- Poverty Rate: 37.6% (24.7–50.5%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.6%
- Diabetes: 25.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.6%
- Unemployment: 7.5% (0.3–14.7%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), 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 Norris Avenue Baptist Church
- Powerhouse Ministries Revival Center — 0.1 mi away
- Little Rock Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Apostolic Deliverance Temple — 0.1 mi away
- PMRC Church — 0.2 mi away
- Pentecostal Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Hope Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Prospect United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Temple of Christ Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Peters Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Rock of Ages Church of God in Christ — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Little Rock Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Hope Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Temple of Christ Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Peters Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away