Sixth Street Baptist Church
Sixth Street Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Suffolk, VA 23434. It is one of 211 churches in Suffolk, and one of 32 Baptist congregations in the city.
Suffolk, VA, 23434Sixth Street 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 — 71,417 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 Sixth Street Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 5 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, 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 healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 54.6%
- Food Insecurity: 40.5%
- Social Isolation: 40.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 30.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.3%
- Diabetes: 22.3%
- Unemployment: 12.9% (5.9–20.5%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 20.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.7% (8.9–24.6%)
- Poverty Rate: 20.7% (11.4–30.1%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.5%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Suffolk city is served by 138 churches — about one congregation for every 687 residents.
Churches near Sixth Street Baptist Church
- New Calvary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Matthews Church — 0.3 mi away
- Rising St James Penecostal Holiness Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Timothy Independence Church — 0.3 mi away
- True Gospel Ministries I Am Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Oliva Apostlear Church — 0.3 mi away
- Tabernacle Christian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Division Street Pentecostal Holiness Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint John Pentecostal Holiness Church;Allen Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Penecostal Church of Christs Disciples — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- New Calvary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Suffolk Bible Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- East End Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Metropolitan Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away