Friendship Baptist Church
Friendship 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, 35901Friendship 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 — 71,874 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 Friendship 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. More than 4 in 5 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: 84.9%
- Obesity: 52.2%
- Poverty Rate: 39.3% (26.8–51.9%)
- Food Insecurity: 38.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 26.8%
- Diabetes: 23.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.8%
- Unemployment: 15.0% (4.6–25.4%)
- Social Isolation: 39.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 19.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 18.1% (10.3–25.9%)
- Depression: 23.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.0%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Gadsden city is served by 121 churches — about one congregation for every 258 residents.
Churches near Friendship Baptist Church
- Sweet Home Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Henry Street Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Gadsden First United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint James Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Gadsden Vineyard Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Cornerstone Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Union Street Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Henry Street Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Union Street Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Fellowship Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away