Temple Baptist Church
Temple Baptist Church is a Baptist church at Pershing Avenue in Norfolk, VA 23509. It is one of 281 churches in Norfolk, and one of 53 Baptist congregations in the city.
Pershing Avenue, Norfolk, VA, 23509Temple Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,726 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Virginia — 71,352 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 Temple 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. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is two thousand 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.
- Obesity: 43.7%
- Social Isolation: 38.1%
- Food Insecurity: 23.1%
- Diabetes: 16.3%
- Unemployment: 8.0% (2.0–14.1%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.2%
- Poverty Rate: 20.0% (12.7–27.3%)
- Housing Insecurity: 18.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.4% (6.4–20.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Norfolk city is served by 176 churches — about one congregation for every 1,346 residents.
Churches near Temple Baptist Church
- Temple of Prayer — 0 mi away
- Christ The King Church — 0.1 mi away
- Lafayette Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- St Mary Romanian Orthodox Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Hope Church of God in Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Church of the Epiphany — 0.4 mi away
- Mount Hermon Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Freedom Church of God in Christ — 0.5 mi away
- Fairmont Park United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- The Apostolic Church Glorious Vision — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mount Hermon Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Spurgeon Memorial Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Trinity Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Mount Olive Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- New St Mark's Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away