First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 514 Halibut Point Road in Sitka, AK 99835. It is one of 18 churches in Sitka, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
514 Halibut Point Road, Sitka, AK, 99835First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 142 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Alaska — 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
In the few miles around this church, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. About 1 in 10 the people here live without health insurance. That is two thousand 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: 31.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.9%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Sitka city and borough is served by 11 churches — about one congregation for every 769 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Sitka — 0.2 mi away
- Kingdom Hall — 0.3 mi away
- Church of the Nazarene — 0.3 mi away
- Sitka Christian Center — 0.3 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Sitka Assembly of God — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Michael's Russian Orthodox Cathedral — 0.5 mi away
- Sitka Lutheran Church — 0.5 mi away
- Grace Lutheran Church — 0.5 mi away
- Sitka United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Grace Harbor Church — 1.3 mi away