First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 347 N. Ripley Street in Montgomery, AL 36104. It is one of 487 churches in Montgomery, and one of 26 Baptist congregations in the city.
347 N. Ripley Street, Montgomery, AL, 36104Phone: (334) 264-6921 · Website: http://www.firstbaptistchurchmontgomery.com/
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 about a mile of this church, more than 6 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,100 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: 66.1% (41.2–79.8%)
- Obesity: 51.3%
- Food Insecurity: 37.4%
- Poverty Rate: 34.0% (20.5–47.6%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 26.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.4%
- Diabetes: 20.3%
- Social Isolation: 37.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 18.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.5% (7.1–24.0%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.3%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.8%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Montgomery city is served by 208 churches — about one congregation for every 892 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Saint John African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Life Church of God — 0.1 mi away
- Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Weeping Willow Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- River City Church — 0.5 mi away
- Dexter Avenue Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Morning Star Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Johns Church — 0.5 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Weeping Willow Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Morning Star Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Mark Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
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