Second Avenue Baptist Church
Second Avenue Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Birmingham, AL 35203. It is one of 848 churches in Birmingham, and one of 171 Baptist congregations in the city.
Birmingham, AL, 35203Second Avenue 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 — 71,418 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 Second Avenue Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. More than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 41.7%
- Food Insecurity: 36.7%
- Poverty Rate: 33.0% (21.5–44.5%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 25.3%
- Diabetes: 21.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.9%
- Obesity: 44.7%
- Child Poverty: 30.9% (24.6–60.8%)
- Transportation Barriers: 17.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.5% (10.3–22.6%)
- Unemployment: 8.6% (1.7–15.7%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.0%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Birmingham city is served by 254 churches — about one congregation for every 722 residents.
Churches near Second Avenue Baptist Church
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- New St James Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Pentecostal True Holiness Church — 0.2 mi away
- Prophetic Church of the Living God — 0.3 mi away
- Antioch Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Kingdom Hall Of Jehovah's Witnesses — 0.3 mi away
- New Testament Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Fourth Terrace Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Victory Missionary Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- Mount Calvary Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- Sixth Street Peace Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Antioch Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Testament Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
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