First Baptist Church

First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 600 Governors Drive Southwest in Huntsville, AL 35801. It is one of 404 churches in Huntsville, and one of 57 Baptist congregations in the city.

600 Governors Drive Southwest, Huntsville, AL, 35801

First 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 First Baptist Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.

  • Obesity: 41.1%
  • Social Isolation: 35.8%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.0%
  • Food Insecurity: 18.2%
  • Diabetes: 13.3%

Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Huntsville city is served by 199 churches — about one congregation for every 1,044 residents.

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