First Presbyterian Church, Portsmouth
First Presbyterian Church, Portsmouth is a Presbyterian church at 515 Court Street in Portsmouth, VA 23704. It is one of 213 churches in Portsmouth, and one of 6 Presbyterian congregations in the city.
515 Court Street, Portsmouth, VA, 23704Shares a ministry location with Holy Temple Ministries.
First Presbyterian Church, Portsmouth is part of the Presbyterian family of churches in The American Church Story. 511 congregations of the Presbyterian family gather across Virginia — 11,342 across the United States on The Church Map.
Presbyterians gave American Christianity much of its backbone: seminaries, catechisms, and shared government by elders rather than by one man, a habit that shaped the country's civic life as much as its churches. They have been among the most persistent builders of colleges, hospitals, and mission agencies this nation has.
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The community around First Presbyterian Church, Portsmouth
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 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, 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.
- Child Poverty: 51.9% (36.0–67.8%)
- Social Isolation: 37.1%
- Poverty Rate: 25.3% (17.2–33.4%)
- Food Insecurity: 20.7%
- Obesity: 38.3%
- Depression: 23.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 16.3%
- Diabetes: 14.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.9%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 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 First Presbyterian Church, Portsmouth
- Holy Temple Ministries — 0 mi away
- Trinity Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Court Street Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Monumental United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Pauls Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- New St. Mark C.O.G.I.C — 0.2 mi away
- First Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Central Methodist Episcopal Church (former) — 0.3 mi away
- Saint John's Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
More Presbyterian churches nearby
- Prentiss Park Presbyterian Church — 1.4 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 1.8 mi away in Norfolk, VA
- South Norfolk First Presbyterian Church — 2.2 mi away in Chesapeake, VA
- Trinity Presbyterian Church — 2.3 mi away in Norfolk, VA
- Covenant Presbyterian Church — 2.3 mi away in Norfolk, VA
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