Old Riverside Baptist Church
Old Riverside Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Memphis, TN 38109. It is one of 1,547 churches in Memphis, and one of 382 Baptist congregations in the city.
Memphis, TN, 38109Old Riverside 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 Old Riverside Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 2 in 3 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand 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: 66.9% (49.6–84.2%)
- Obesity: 51.4%
- Poverty Rate: 41.3% (28.2–54.3%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 40.6%
- Diabetes: 27.7%
- Unemployment: 22.3% (11.7–32.8%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 19.9% (11.1–28.8%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.5%
- Depression: 24.2%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 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 Old Riverside Baptist Church
- Free Life Church — 0 mi away
- New Restoration Church — 0 mi away
- Ford Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0 mi away
- Riverside Church — 0 mi away
- New Genesis Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Galilee Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Greater Paradise Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Williams Temple Church of God in Christ Satellite Annex — 0.2 mi away
- Lutheran Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Life Mission Ministry — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- New Genesis Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Galilee Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Greater Paradise Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Greater Southside Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Greater Mount Calvary Missionary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away