Jerusalem Baptist Church
Jerusalem Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Savannah, GA 31405. It is one of 461 churches in Savannah, and one of 125 Baptist congregations in the city.
During the Spring of 1865, a group of black farmers met with the Rev. Lewis Price, a white minister, to form a church in eastern Tattnall County.
Wheelchair accessible
Savannah, GA, 31405Phone: (912) 653-2272
Jerusalem 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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The community around Jerusalem 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. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third of 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 families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Social Isolation: 43.3%
- Food Insecurity: 40.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 31.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.0%
- Diabetes: 21.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 20.4%
- Unemployment: 14.0% (6.7–21.4%)
- Obesity: 44.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.8%
- Poverty Rate: 25.0% (13.7–36.2%)
- Transportation Barriers: 20.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.1%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Savannah city is served by 217 churches — about one congregation for every 727 residents.
Churches near Jerusalem Baptist Church
- Faith Deliverance Apostolic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Trinity Foundation Missionary — 0.3 mi away
- First Zion Belmont Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Peters African Methodist Episcoal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Bethel Apostolic Church Savannah — 0.4 mi away
- Richfield Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- BZC the place to be — 0.5 mi away
- Beautiful Zion Church — 0.5 mi away
- Jonesville Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Transformation Center Church — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Zion Belmont Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Richfield Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Jonesville Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Union Branch Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Zion Hill Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away