Grove Avenue Baptist Church
Grove Avenue Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 8701 Ridge Road in Henrico, VA 23229. It is one of 170 churches in Henrico, and one of 15 Baptist congregations in the city.
Over the past 200+ years, one mission has stayed the same: to share the good news of Jesus Christ.
Formally organized in 1868, Grove Avenue Baptist Church has been a light in the community of Richmond tracing back to 1817.
Serving since 1868
8701 Ridge Road, Henrico, VA, 23229Phone: +1-804-740-8888 · Website: https://groveave.com/
Grove Avenue Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,736 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Virginia — 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 Grove Avenue Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 10 the people here were born in another country. 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.
- Social Isolation: 30.2%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Grove Avenue Baptist Church
- Igreja Universal — 0.2 mi away
- Iglesia Adventista West End — 0.4 mi away
- Colonial Place Church — 0.4 mi away
- Derbyshire Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- West End Assembly of God — 0.7 mi away
- St. Jude's Anglican Church — 0.8 mi away
- Ridge Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Arabic Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away in Richmond, VA
- The Christian Arabic Church — 0.9 mi away
- Third Church — 0.9 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Derbyshire Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Ridge Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Arabic Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away in Richmond, VA
- Quioccasin Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- River Road Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away