Fifth Avenue Baptist Church
Fifth Avenue Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1135 Fifth Avenue in Huntington, WV 25701. It is one of 186 churches in Huntington, and one of 32 Baptist congregations in the city.
Wheelchair accessible
1135 Fifth Avenue, Huntington, WV, 25701Service times
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 9am
Phone: (304) 523-0115 · Website: http://fifthavenuebaptist.org/
Fifth Avenue Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 774 congregations of the Baptist family gather across West 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 Fifth Avenue Baptist Church
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 nearly half of the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,200 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: 49.5%
- Poverty Rate: 46.2%
- Depression: 35.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.1%
- Food Insecurity: 29.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.2%
- Social Isolation: 38.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 20.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 17.5%
- Diabetes: 17.0%
- Unemployment: 8.5% (1.2–16.6%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Huntington city is served by 108 churches — about one congregation for every 382 residents.
Churches near Fifth Avenue Baptist Church
- Trinity Episcopal Church — 0 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Central Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Trinity Presbyterian Church (OPC) — 0.1 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Joseph Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Redemption Church — 0.2 mi away
- Johnson Memorial United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Salvation Army Chapel — 0.2 mi away
- Quickening Fire Ministries — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Sixteenth Street Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Central Free Will Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Huntington United Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
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