Southside Baptist Church
Southside Baptist Church is a Southern Baptist church in Birmingham, AL 35205. It is one of 596 churches in Birmingham, and one of 3 Southern Baptist congregations in the city.
Southside Baptist's mission is to "build an inclusive community of grace," first in our own community and then in the world.
Part of Cooperative Baptist Fellowship
Birmingham, AL, 35205Service times
- Sunday 11am
Phone: (205) 933-8381 · Website: http://www.southsidebirmingham.org/
Southside 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.
Ministries at Southside Baptist Church
- Food Pantry
- Feed the Hungry
Find Southside Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
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Latest from Southside Baptist Church - Birmingham, AL's YouTube channel: "In the Company of Saints" | November 1, 2026 (all videos).
The community around Southside Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. Nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression, and nearly a quarter 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: 46.1%
- Depression: 27.5%
- Poverty Rate: 26.6% (17.9–35.3%)
- Child Poverty: 28.4% (18.2–43.1%)
- Food Insecurity: 16.7%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Birmingham city is served by 254 churches — about one congregation for every 722 residents.
Churches near Southside Baptist Church
- St. Mary's-On-the-Highland Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Marys Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Highlands United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Iron City Church — 0.3 mi away
- South Highland Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Baptist Church of the Covenant — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Stephen the Martyr Catholic University Chapel — 0.4 mi away
- Third Presbyterian Church — 0.5 mi away
- Gardendale First Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- St. Andrew's Episcopal Church — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Baptist Church of the Covenant — 0.4 mi away
- Gardendale First Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- The Church at Southside — 0.6 mi away
- 23rd Street Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- East End Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
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