Southside Baptist Temple
Southside Baptist Temple is a Baptist church at 5515 Bryce Lane in Richmond, VA 23224. It is one of 585 churches in Richmond, and one of 85 Baptist congregations in the city.
5515 Bryce Lane, Richmond, VA, 23224Shares a ministry location with The Life Church RVA.
Southside Baptist Temple 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.
Find Southside Baptist Temple on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Southside Baptist Temple
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 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: 45.8%
- Social Isolation: 41.2%
- Food Insecurity: 34.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 27.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 26.1% (17.8–34.5%)
- Diabetes: 18.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.5%
- Unemployment: 17.1% (5.5–28.8%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.8%
- Poverty Rate: 28.4% (18.7–38.2%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 17.0%
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.
Churches near Southside Baptist Temple
- The Life Church RVA — 0 mi away
- Manchester Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Generation Of Glory Ministry — 0.3 mi away
- City Of Refuge — 0.3 mi away
- God's Miracle Church — 0.4 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 0.5 mi away
- Ramsey Memorial United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Cosby Memorial Church — 0.6 mi away
- Metropolitan African American Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Apostolic Church of Jesus Christ — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Manchester Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Metropolitan African American Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- First Union Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Reliance Church RVA — 1 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 1 mi away