Metropolitan Baptist Church
Metropolitan 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.
Bessemer, AL, 35020Metropolitan 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.
Find Metropolitan Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Metropolitan 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 2,200 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: 48.6%
- Food Insecurity: 44.1%
- Social Isolation: 42.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.6%
- Poverty Rate: 34.9% (18.8–51.0%)
- Housing Insecurity: 29.8%
- Diabetes: 24.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 20.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.3% (7.6–23.0%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.6%
- Unemployment: 7.9% (2.6–13.5%)
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 Metropolitan Baptist Church
- First Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Fifteenth Street Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Fountain Of Life Ministries, Inc. — 0.2 mi away
- Word of Faith Global Ministries — 0.2 mi away in Pelham, AL
- Church of the Nazarene — 0.2 mi away
- Grace & Truth Apostolic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Ebenezer Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church of Bessemer — 0.2 mi away
- First Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- Perfecting Reconciliation Church International — 0.2 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Fifteenth Street Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Ebenezer Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Bessemer — 0.2 mi away
- Canaan Baptist Church Number 2 — 0.4 mi away
- Friendship Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away