Friendship Independent Baptist Church
Friendship Independent Baptist Church is a Baptist church at East Princess Anne Road in Norfolk, VA 23502. It is one of 339 churches in Norfolk, and one of 43 Baptist congregations in the city.
East Princess Anne Road, Norfolk, VA, 23502Friendship Independent 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 Friendship Independent Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, about 1 in 5 the people here live without health insurance. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,100 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.
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 21.5% (11.7–31.3%)
- Obesity: 42.8%
- Social Isolation: 39.8%
- Food Insecurity: 22.5%
- Diabetes: 15.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.3%
- Child Poverty: 24.1% (9.6–38.6%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 18.5%
- Poverty Rate: 16.9% (10.3–23.5%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.6%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Norfolk city is served by 176 churches — about one congregation for every 1,346 residents.
Churches near Friendship Independent Baptist Church
- Faith In Action Church — 0.2 mi away
- Coleman Place Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Cornerstone Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Horizon Outreach Church of God in Christ — 0.5 mi away
- Christian Concourse Ministries — 0.6 mi away
- Bethany Church — 0.6 mi away
- Community Church of Norfolk — 0.6 mi away
- Thy Kingdom Christian Church — 0.7 mi away
- Revival Time Ministries Inc. — 0.7 mi away
- Ferebee-Halstead Memorial Church — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Cornerstone Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Trinity Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Ingleside Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Mount Hermon Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Grace Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away