First Swedish Baptist Church
First Swedish Baptist Church is a church at 1201 South J Street in Tacoma, WA 98405. It is one of 382 churches in Tacoma.
1201 South J Street, Tacoma, WA, 98405Shares a ministry location with Rivers of Life International Ministries.
First Swedish Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 624 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Washington — 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 First Swedish Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. Nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression, and nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,100 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: 43.4%
- Depression: 27.8%
- Poverty Rate: 25.0% (17.9–32.1%)
- Unemployment: 8.3% (2.0–14.5%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.7%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Tacoma city is served by 163 churches — about one congregation for every 1,366 residents.
Churches near First Swedish Baptist Church
- Rivers of Life International Ministries — 0 mi away
- Associated Ministries of Tacoma — 0.1 mi away
- Allen African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Last Day Ministries — 0.1 mi away
- Shiloh Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Jerusalem — 0.1 mi away
- Iglesia de Jesucristo Palabra Miel — 0.1 mi away
- Living His Word Evangelistic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Mount Calvary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Greater Love Church of God — 0.1 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Shiloh Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Mount Calvary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Vocational First Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint John Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- City Central Church — 1 mi away