What denomination is First Baptist Church?

First Baptist Church in Petersburg, TN is a Baptist church. It is one of 2 Baptist congregations in Petersburg.

First Baptist Church

First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Petersburg, TN 37144. It is one of 23 churches in Petersburg, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.

Petersburg, TN, 37144

First 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 First Baptist Church

It takes 4.4 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 adults here carry depression, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. A scattered parish is still a parish.

Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.

Depression: 29.6%
Obesity: 39.7%
Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.2%
Diabetes: 14.3%

Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Churches near First Baptist Church

First Presbyterian Church — 0 mi away
Petersburg Cumberland Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
Petersburg Church of God — 0.1 mi away
Petersburg United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
Petersburg Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
Caldwell United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
Cane Creek Church — 1.8 mi away
Mount Olivet Church — 2.4 mi away
Arbor Hill Church — 3.2 mi away
Hannah Gap Church — 3.9 mi away

More Baptist churches nearby

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Charity Church — 9.5 mi away in Lynchburg, Moore County, TN
New Bethel Baptist Church — 10.6 mi away in Shelbyville, TN

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