23rd Street Baptist Church
23rd Street Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Birmingham, AL 35233. It is one of 848 churches in Birmingham, and one of 102 Baptist congregations in the city.
Birmingham, AL, 35233Website: http://www.wix.com/23smbc/23rd
23rd 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 23rd Street Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 2 in 3 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.
- Child Poverty: 70.4% (53.7–89.8%)
- Social Isolation: 40.8%
- Poverty Rate: 29.3% (21.4–37.2%)
- Depression: 24.9%
- Food Insecurity: 17.5%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Birmingham city is served by 254 churches — about one congregation for every 722 residents.
Churches near 23rd Street Baptist Church
- Immanuel Church — 0.1 mi away
- The Church at Southside — 0.1 mi away
- Mosaic Birmingham — 0.2 mi away
- Third Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Olive Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- East End Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Holy Trinity - Holy Cross Greek Orthodox Cathedral — 0.4 mi away
- Fourth Avenue South Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Living Word Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Baptist Church of the Covenant — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- The Church at Southside — 0.1 mi away
- Mount Olive Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- East End Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Fourth Avenue South Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Living Word Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
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