Friendship Baptist Church
Friendship Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Birmingham, AL 35207. It is one of 596 churches in Birmingham, and one of 157 Baptist congregations in the city.
Birmingham, AL, 35207Friendship Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 4,551 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Alabama — 71,352 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 Friendship Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 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 nearly half 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 families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 69.5%
- Food Insecurity: 54.8%
- Obesity: 53.4%
- Poverty Rate: 52.1% (38.4–65.8%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 43.8%
- Social Isolation: 43.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 36.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 32.2%
- Diabetes: 30.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 27.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.5%
- Unemployment: 8.0% (2.6–13.4%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.8% (6.3–17.3%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Birmingham city is served by 254 churches — about one congregation for every 722 residents.
Churches near Friendship Baptist Church
- Mt Pleasant Primitive Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Joyful News Family Church — 0.5 mi away
- St. Luke AME Church — 0.5 mi away
- Bethel Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Collegeville Church of Christ — 0.6 mi away
- North Birmingham Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Olivet Monumental Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Saint Paul Catholic Church — 0.6 mi away
- Greater Works Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mt Pleasant Primitive Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Joyful News Family Church — 0.5 mi away
- Bethel Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- North Birmingham Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Olivet Monumental Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
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