Damascus Baptist Church
Damascus Baptist Church is a Missionary Baptist church at 547 Tyler St in Gadsden, AL 35901-2031. It is one of 215 churches in Gadsden, and one of 4 Missionary Baptist congregations in the city.
547 Tyler St, Gadsden, AL, 35901-2031Service times
- Monday 6:30pm
Phone: (256) 547-9995 · Website: https://www.damascusmbc.com/
Damascus 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 Damascus 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. About 2 in 3 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. 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: 70.1%
- Obesity: 54.9%
- Food Insecurity: 44.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 41.7%
- Social Isolation: 40.2%
- Poverty Rate: 37.9% (25.2–50.6%)
- Housing Insecurity: 30.5%
- Diabetes: 25.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 24.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 21.4% (12.1–30.8%)
- Unemployment: 13.8% (4.2–23.8%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 21.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.9%
- Depression: 23.2%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Damascus Baptist Church
- Mission Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mt. Carmel Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- James Temple Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of God in Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Rising Star AOH Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- Apostolic House of Prayer Church — 0.4 mi away
- Shiloh Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Celebrate Recovery at Freedom Church Gadsden — 0.5 mi away
- Grace Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Gadsden City Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mission Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Shiloh Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Grace Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Sixteenth Street Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Morning Star Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away