Union Baptist Church
Union Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 275 Hardware St in Scottsville, VA 24590-4288. It is one of 22 churches in Scottsville, and one of 3 Baptist congregations in the city.
Union Baptist Church is the oldest black congregation in the Scottsville area and was organized in 1865 by the Reverends Henry Smith and J. A. Doll.
Serving since 1865
275 Hardware St, Scottsville, VA, 24590-4288Phone: +14342863312 · Website: http://scottsvillemuseum.com/church/homeCG04cdCG01.html
Union 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 Union Baptist Church
It takes 3.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 15 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Social Isolation: 32.5%
- Unemployment: 7.3% (3.3–11.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Union Baptist Church
- Scottsville Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Atlee Community Church — 0.5 mi away
- Scottsville Presbyterian Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Johns Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- Scottsville Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
- St George Catholic Church — 2.6 mi away
- Fox Memorial Church — 2.7 mi away
- Saint Johns Church — 3.4 mi away
- Christ Church — 3.9 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Scottsville Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Antioch Baptist Church — 4.8 mi away
- New Hope Church — 5.5 mi away
- Fluvanna Church — 6.7 mi away
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