Where is First Baptist Church located?

First Baptist Church is at 321 Marshall Avenue Southwest, Roanoke, VA, 24016.

What time are services at First Baptist Church?

First Baptist Church meets Sunday at 10:30am. Times are the church's local time — confirm with the church before visiting.

What denomination is First Baptist Church?

First Baptist Church in Roanoke, VA is a Baptist church. It is one of 67 Baptist congregations in Roanoke.

First Baptist Church

First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 321 Marshall Avenue Southwest in Roanoke, VA 24016. It is one of 351 churches in Roanoke, and one of 67 Baptist congregations in the city.

The purpose of this church is to glorify God through obedience to the great commission in leading people to faith in Christ and into an ever-growing relationship with him.

Serving since 2006 · Services in Spanish

321 Marshall Avenue Southwest, Roanoke, VA, 24016

Service times

Sunday 10:30am

Phone: (540) 224-3300 · Website: https://www.firstroanoke.com/

First 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 — 71,418 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 First Baptist Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. About a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is 2,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.

Social Isolation: 35.7%
Child Poverty: 33.1% (14.6–51.7%)
Obesity: 36.8%
Depression: 24.7%
Poverty Rate: 20.1% (11.8–28.4%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Roanoke city is served by 141 churches — about one congregation for every 703 residents.

Churches near First Baptist Church

First Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
Acts 2 Ministry — 0.1 mi away
Greene Memorial United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
Central Church of the Brethren — 0.2 mi away
Grace Fellowship — 0.2 mi away
Congregational Holiness Church — 0.2 mi away
Trinity United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
Roanoke Quakers — 0.3 mi away
Second Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
Saint Marks Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away

More Baptist churches nearby

Roanoke Quakers — 0.3 mi away
Calvary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
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Ironside Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
Jerusalem Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away

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