West Hunter Street Baptist Church
West Hunter Street Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1040 Ralph David Abernathy Boulevard in Atlanta, GA 30310. It is one of 940 churches in Atlanta, and one of 93 Baptist congregations in the city.
Our church is dedicated to spreading the Word of the Gospel and serving our community with love, compassion, perseverance, and hope.
Welcome to West Hunter Street Baptist Church, offering a transformational worship service that ministers to the heart, mind, and soul of each of our beloved members.
1040 Ralph David Abernathy Boulevard, Atlanta, GA, 30310Service times
- Sunday 9:30am · School
Phone: 404-758-5563 · Website: https://whsbc.com/
West Hunter Street Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 5,867 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Georgia — 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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Latest from The Official West Hunter Street Baptist Church's YouTube channel: Sunday Worship | Rev. Dr. Cedrick Von Jackson | August 2, 2026 (all videos).
The community around West Hunter Street Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. About a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,200 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 41.4%
- Food Insecurity: 34.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 27.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.0%
- Diabetes: 18.9%
- Unemployment: 12.6% (1.8–23.5%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.4%
- Poverty Rate: 24.4% (14.1–34.7%)
- Transportation Barriers: 18.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.0% (12.9–21.9%)
- Obesity: 38.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.7% (6.7–20.6%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), 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 West Hunter Street Baptist Church
- The Shrine of the Black Madonna — 0.1 mi away
- Pan African Orthodox Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Wheat Street Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Anthony of Padua Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Abundant LUUv — 0.3 mi away
- Journey Of Faith Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Linked Up Church — 0.4 mi away
- Nexus Church — 0.4 mi away
- West End Church — 0.4 mi away
- Westend Lighthouse Fellowship — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Wheat Street Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- New Fairfield Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Mount Tabor Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Mount Moriah Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away