Metropolitan Baptist Church
Metropolitan Baptist Church is a church at 1021 Halifax Street in Petersburg, VA 23803. It is one of 145 churches in Petersburg.
1021 Halifax Street, Petersburg, VA, 23803Metropolitan 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 Metropolitan Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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: 53.3%
- Food Insecurity: 43.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 39.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 30.6%
- Diabetes: 28.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 25.2%
- Unemployment: 18.8% (5.7–31.8%)
- Social Isolation: 39.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.2%
- Poverty Rate: 29.9% (18.5–41.3%)
- Transportation Barriers: 21.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.7% (11.2–18.7%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Petersburg city is served by 51 churches — about one congregation for every 652 residents.
Churches near Metropolitan Baptist Church
- Christian Outreach Ministry — 0.1 mi away
- Higher Way Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- Good Shepherd Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Kingdom Warriors of Yahweh, An Assembly of Yahweh — 0.3 mi away
- Solomon's Temple RZUA Church — 0.3 mi away
- Third Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Royal Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Bethesda Church of Christ — 0.6 mi away
- Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Church of the Lord Jesus Christ — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Good Shepherd Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Third Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Third Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Mount Olivet Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
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