Jerusalem Baptist Church
Jerusalem Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 718 Tidewater Drive in Norfolk, VA 23504. It is one of 339 churches in Norfolk, and one of 56 Baptist congregations in the city.
718 Tidewater Drive, Norfolk, VA, 23504Jerusalem Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,727 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Virginia — 71,418 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 Jerusalem Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 8 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. More than half of the people here live 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 households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 80.3%
- Poverty Rate: 57.8%
- Obesity: 54.6%
- Food Insecurity: 52.0%
- Social Isolation: 45.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 42.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 37.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 31.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 29.2%
- Diabetes: 25.5%
- Unemployment: 17.9% (7.0–29.0%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.2% (14.1–23.4%)
- Depression: 23.5%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Norfolk city is served by 176 churches — about one congregation for every 1,346 residents.
Churches near Jerusalem Baptist Church
- Greater Metropolitan Zion Church — 0.2 mi away
- Renewal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Gethsemane Community Fellowship — 0.3 mi away
- Grace Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Christ Pentecostal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Smyrna Church of Christ Holy — 0.3 mi away
- Shiloh Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- St. John's AME Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Calvary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Calvary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Shiloh Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Calvary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Calvary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Queen Street Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away