Greater Mount Carmel Baptist Church

Greater Mount Carmel Baptist Church is a church at 1409 Martin Luther King Jr Dr in Birmingham, AL 35211-2844. It is one of 848 churches in Birmingham.

Serving since 1912

1409 Martin Luther King Jr Dr, Birmingham, AL, 35211-2844

Phone: (205) 251-5995

Greater Mount Carmel 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 — 71,419 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 Greater Mount Carmel Baptist Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is two thousand 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.

  • Obesity: 47.6%
  • Social Isolation: 40.9%
  • Food Insecurity: 38.7%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.3%
  • Diabetes: 26.9%
  • Housing Insecurity: 26.2%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 23.1% (15.6–30.6%)
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.9%
  • Child Poverty: 32.7% (14.1–51.3%)
  • Poverty Rate: 26.3% (14.9–37.6%)
  • Transportation Barriers: 18.3%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.9%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.9%
  • Unemployment: 6.5% (0.1–13.5%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

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