Sixteenth Street Baptist Church
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Gadsden, AL 35901. It is one of 215 churches in Gadsden, and one of 67 Baptist congregations in the city.
Gadsden, AL, 35901Service times
- 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. 4,553 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Alabama — 71,872 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 Sixteenth Street Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 6 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. More than 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: 69.7%
- Obesity: 55.3%
- Food Insecurity: 45.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 42.2%
- Social Isolation: 40.2%
- Poverty Rate: 34.7% (22.3–47.1%)
- Housing Insecurity: 31.3%
- Diabetes: 24.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 24.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 24.3% (14.0–34.6%)
- Transportation Barriers: 22.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.2%
- Unemployment: 10.8% (1.6–20.4%)
- Depression: 24.2%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 7 census tracts near this church.
Gadsden city is served by 121 churches — about one congregation for every 258 residents.
Churches near Sixteenth Street Baptist Church
- Grace Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Celebrate Recovery at Freedom Church Gadsden — 0.3 mi away
- Mt. Carmel Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Hopkins Memorial Mission Center Chapel — 0.4 mi away
- Twelfth Street Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Iglesia Casa de Fuego — 0.4 mi away in Gadsen, AL
- Abundant Life Church — 0.4 mi away
- Church of God in Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Oak Park Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Advent Christian Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Grace Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Twelfth Street Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Oak Park Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Damascus Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Liberty Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away