Fifth Street Baptist Church

Fifth Street Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 2800 3rd Avenue in Richmond, VA 23222. It is one of 585 churches in Richmond, and one of 85 Baptist congregations in the city.

We believe in Jesus’s mandate that we be a people who love God with all of our heart, soul and mind, and to love our neighbor as ourselves.

2800 3rd Avenue, Richmond, VA, 23222

Service times

  • Sunday 8am · School -
  • Sunday 10am · August 30th - Silver Saints -
  • Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 10am–3pm · - -

Fifth Street 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 Fifth Street 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. About 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is 2,300 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.

  • Diabetes: 18.1%
  • Obesity: 43.1%
  • Social Isolation: 39.9%
  • Food Insecurity: 24.5%
  • Housing Insecurity: 20.2%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.3%
  • Unemployment: 8.1% (1.2–15.6%)
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.3%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.4%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Richmond city is served by 181 churches — about one congregation for every 1,255 residents.

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