Centennial Baptist Church
Centennial Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1403 Jefferson Street in Portsmouth, VA 23704. It is one of 213 churches in Portsmouth, and one of 51 Baptist congregations in the city.
1403 Jefferson Street, Portsmouth, VA, 23704Centennial 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 — 71,417 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 Centennial 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. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.
- Obesity: 49.6%
- Social Isolation: 41.6%
- Food Insecurity: 40.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.1%
- Poverty Rate: 31.6% (17.8–45.3%)
- Housing Insecurity: 30.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 24.6%
- Diabetes: 23.2%
- Unemployment: 15.4% (4.5–26.2%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 21.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.5%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Portsmouth city is served by 119 churches — about one congregation for every 818 residents.
Churches near Centennial Baptist Church
- First Pentecostal Church of Christ Holiness — 0.1 mi away
- Jackson Memorial Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Saint Thomas Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Beginnings Christian Outreach Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- Prentiss Park Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Hope Church — 0.3 mi away
- Faith Evangelical Church — 0.3 mi away
- Brighton Rock African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint James Church of God in Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Elm Avenue Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Jackson Memorial Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Saint Thomas Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church of South Portsmouth — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Johns Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Freewill Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
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