Sixteenth Street Baptist Church
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1530 5th Ave, N Birmingham, AL, 35203 in Birmingham, AL 35203. It is one of 848 churches in Birmingham, and one of 171 Baptist congregations in the city.
Our mission is to introduce people to Jesus Christ and to encourage the cultivation of a personal relationship with Him.
Our vision is to have a Bible-centric ministry that will Reach, Rebuild and Reproduce disciples through the power of the Holy Spirit.
1530 5th Ave, N Birmingham, AL, 35203, Birmingham, AL, 35203Service times
- Sunday 9:30am · School
- Wednesday 6:30pm · Bible Study
Phone: (205) 251-9402 · Website: https://www.16thstreetbaptist.org/
Sixteenth Street 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 — 71,420 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.
Ministries at Sixteenth Street Baptist Church
- Youth Ministry
- Women’s Ministry
- Men’s Ministry
- Married Couples Ministry
- Benevolence
- Intercessory Prayer
- Hospital Visitation
- Health & Wellness
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Latest from 16th Street Baptist Church's YouTube channel: Good Friday in Black and White 2016: Dr Thomas Beavers (all videos).
The community around Sixteenth 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. More than 4 in 5 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, 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.
- Child Poverty: 90.9%
- Social Isolation: 41.3%
- Food Insecurity: 36.8%
- Poverty Rate: 33.6% (20.2–47.1%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 25.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.5%
- Diabetes: 19.0%
- Obesity: 43.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 18.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.4% (11.0–18.2%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.2% (4.3–22.0%)
- Unemployment: 6.8% (0.2–13.8%)
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 Sixteenth Street Baptist Church
- Saint Paul United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- St John A.M.E. Church — 0.1 mi away
- Deliverance Temple Ifc — 0.1 mi away
- Daughters of Abraham — 0.1 mi away
- Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.1 mi away
- Beulah Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of the Reconciler — 0.4 mi away
- Rock City Church Downtown — 0.4 mi away
- Cathedral Church of the Advent — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Beulah Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Friendly Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Macedonia 17th Street Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Saint Josephs Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
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