Sylvester Baptist Church
Sylvester Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Atlanta, GA 30308. It is one of 940 churches in Atlanta, and one of 156 Baptist congregations in the city.
Atlanta, GA, 30308Sylvester Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 5,847 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Georgia — 71,419 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 Sylvester Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 the people here live below the poverty line. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 5 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.
- Poverty Rate: 34.3% (22.9–45.8%)
- Social Isolation: 38.6%
- Food Insecurity: 21.1%
- Unemployment: 10.1% (1.1–20.2%)
- Housing Insecurity: 17.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.0%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Atlanta city is served by 310 churches — about one congregation for every 1,580 residents.
Churches near Sylvester Baptist Church
- Fort Street Memorial United Methodist Church — 0 mi away
- Mount Sinai Baptist Church of Atlanta — 0.1 mi away
- Blueprint Church — 0.1 mi away
- Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Grace United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Atlanta Dream Center Church — 0.4 mi away
- Progression Church — 0.4 mi away
- All Faith Church — 0.4 mi away
- Butler Street Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Tri-Stone Cathedral of Faith Ministries — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Mount Zion Second Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Ebenezer Baptist Church Horizon Sanctuary — 0.9 mi away
- Ebenezer Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Wheat Street Baptist Church — 1 mi away