Bethany Baptist Church
Bethany Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 900 Catherine Street in Richmond, VA 23220. It is one of 585 churches in Richmond, and one of 85 Baptist congregations in the city.
Ministry objective is to challenge, liberate, and empower men, women, and youth through the gospel of Jesus Christ.
900 Catherine Street, Richmond, VA, 23220Bethany 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 Bethany Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 5 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third of the people here live below the poverty line. 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.
- Social Isolation: 47.5%
- Poverty Rate: 43.1% (31.2–55.1%)
- Food Insecurity: 29.3%
- Depression: 28.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 20.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 19.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.8%
- Unemployment: 9.0% (3.7–14.4%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.6% (6.9–22.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Richmond city is served by 181 churches — about one congregation for every 1,255 residents.
Churches near Bethany Baptist Church
- West Broad Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Fit for the Kingdom Global Ministries — 0.3 mi away
- Goodwill Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Richmond Community Church - Downtown — 0.3 mi away
- Ebenezer Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Harvest Renewal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Pace Memorial United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Bethlehem Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.4 mi away
- Cathedral of the Sacred Heart — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Goodwill Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Ebenezer Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Sixth Mt Zion Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Moore Street Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Sharon Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away