First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 223 Bull Street in Savannah, GA 31401. It is one of 461 churches in Savannah, and one of 125 Baptist congregations in the city.
Seeking to be the presence of Christ by welcoming, loving, serving, and nurturing all people.
First Baptist Church is a unique Baptist congregation with an historic commitment to inclusiveness, ecumenism, missions, and social justice.
Serving since 1800
223 Bull Street, Savannah, GA, 31401Service times
- Sunday 11am · worship begins
Phone: (912) 234-2671 · Website: https://www.fbc-sav.org/
First 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 — 71,417 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 First Baptist Church, Savannah, Georgia's YouTube channel: September 20, 2026 - 11:00 am Worship Service (all videos).
The community around First Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,200 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: 54.8%
- Poverty Rate: 37.6% (27.2–47.9%)
- Social Isolation: 38.7%
- Unemployment: 8.1% (2.4–14.2%)
- Food Insecurity: 19.2%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Savannah city is served by 217 churches — about one congregation for every 727 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Independent Presbyterian Church — 0 mi away
- Savannah Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Lutheran Church of the Ascension — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Johns Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- The Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist — 0.3 mi away
- Christ Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Savannah Christian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Unitarian Universalist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Wesley Monumental United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First African Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Beth Eden Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Second African Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Life Bridge Inner City Church — 0.5 mi away