Fifteenth Street Baptist Church
Fifteenth Street Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Bessemer, AL 35020. It is one of 167 churches in Bessemer, and one of 34 Baptist congregations in the city.
Our vision is to have a Bible-centric ministry that will Reach, Rebuild and Reproduce disciples through the power of the Holy Spirit.
Bessemer, AL, 35020Service times
- Sunday 9:30am · School
Phone: (205) 251-9402 · Website: https://www.16thstreetbaptist.org/
Fifteenth Street Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 4,553 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Alabama — 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 Fifteenth Street Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 7 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 75.5%
- Obesity: 48.4%
- Food Insecurity: 43.3%
- Social Isolation: 42.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.1%
- Poverty Rate: 32.4% (17.0–47.7%)
- Housing Insecurity: 29.3%
- Diabetes: 24.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 20.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.8% (7.6–21.9%)
- Unemployment: 6.7% (2.2–11.6%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Bessemer city is served by 71 churches — about one congregation for every 425 residents.
Churches near Fifteenth Street Baptist Church
- Fountain Of Life Ministries, Inc. — 0.1 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Metropolitan Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- Word of Faith Global Ministries — 0.2 mi away in Pelham, AL
- Touching Jesus Independent Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church of Bessemer — 0.2 mi away
- Perfecting Reconciliation Church International — 0.2 mi away
- Ebenezer Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of the Nazarene — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Metropolitan Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Ebenezer Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Bessemer — 0.3 mi away
- Shiloh Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Beulah Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away