Benton Avenue Baptist Church
Benton Avenue Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Nashville-Davidson, TN 37204. It is one of 705 churches in Nashville-Davidson, and one of 208 Baptist congregations in the city.
Nashville-Davidson, TN, 37204Benton Avenue 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.
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The community around Benton Avenue 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. About a third of adults here carry depression, and about 1 in 7 the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,300 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.
- Depression: 31.6%
- Poverty Rate: 16.1% (9.9–22.2%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government (balance) is served by 773 churches — about one congregation for every 875 residents.
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- New Metropolitan Church of the Nazarene — 0.4 mi away
- King & City Church — 0.4 mi away in Nashville, TN
- The Hills Nashville — 0.4 mi away in Nashville, TN
- Community Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Rains Avenue Christian Care Center — 0.6 mi away
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