St James Baptist Church
St James Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1300 24th Street North in Birmingham, AL 35234. It is one of 848 churches in Birmingham, and one of 171 Baptist congregations in the city.
1300 24th Street North, Birmingham, AL, 35234Phone: (205) 251-5342
St James 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 — 71,417 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 St James Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 5 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 91.2%
- Obesity: 50.6%
- Food Insecurity: 48.4%
- Social Isolation: 42.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 39.7%
- Poverty Rate: 34.4% (20.5–48.3%)
- Housing Insecurity: 32.5%
- Diabetes: 27.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 26.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 23.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.5% (8.5–24.5%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.9%
- Unemployment: 7.9% (1.1–14.7%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 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 St James Baptist Church
- Galilee Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- His Word Ministries — 0.4 mi away
- Lily Grove Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Bible Based Outreach Ministry — 0.5 mi away
- Rise Again Healing Center Church — 0.5 mi away
- Central Church of Christ — 0.7 mi away
- First Memorial Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- True Love Deliverance Church — 0.7 mi away
- Rock City Church Downtown — 0.7 mi away
- SABC St. Andrews Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Galilee Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Lily Grove Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Memorial Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Evergreen Missionary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Macedonia 17th Street Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
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