Our Lady of Lavang Church
Our Lady of Lavang Church is a Roman Catholic church at 5224 1st Avenue North in Birmingham, AL 35212. It is one of 848 churches in Birmingham, and one of 14 Roman Catholic congregations in the city.
5224 1st Avenue North, Birmingham, AL, 35212Website: http://www.bhmdiocese.org/directory.asp?action=showbiz&bid=1091368
Our Lady of Lavang Church is part of the Catholic family of churches in The American Church Story. 210 congregations of the Catholic family gather across Alabama — 19,012 across the United States on The Church Map.
From the Catholic Church the whole body received the canon of Scripture, the creeds still recited every Sunday in traditions that never look to Rome, and monasteries that kept learning and Scripture alive through a thousand unlit years. Its parishes remain the largest network of schools, hospitals, and shelters in America, most of them serving people who will never attend a Mass.
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The community around Our Lady of Lavang 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. More than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line. 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: 44.8% (27.4–62.3%)
- Poverty Rate: 33.6% (22.0–45.3%)
- Food Insecurity: 33.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.3%
- Diabetes: 18.9%
- Obesity: 43.4%
- Social Isolation: 40.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 23.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 17.1%
- Unemployment: 8.5% (0.7–16.3%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.9%
- Depression: 23.5%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Birmingham city is served by 254 churches — about one congregation for every 722 residents.
Churches near Our Lady of Lavang Church
- First Wesleyan Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Collective Community Church — 0.2 mi away
- Life Changing Worship — 0.2 mi away
- Healing Spring Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Woodlawn United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of the Highlands Woodlawn Campus — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Of Woodlawn — 0.3 mi away
- Doers of the Word Ministries — 0.3 mi away
- Groveland Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Woodlawn Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Catholic churches nearby
- Saint Francis Xavier Catholic Church — 1.7 mi away
- Holy Rosary Catholic Church — 1.8 mi away
- Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic Church — 2.5 mi away
- Saint Barnabas Catholic Church — 2.7 mi away
- Cathedral of Saint Paul — 3 mi away
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