Brown Street Baptist Church
Brown Street Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Alton, IL 62002. It is one of 71 churches in Alton, and one of 13 Baptist congregations in the city.
Alton, IL, 62002Service times
- Wednesday 6:30pm
Website: http://bsbca.org/
Brown Street Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,210 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Illinois — 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.
Ministries at Brown Street Baptist Church
- Bible Fellowship Hour
- Morning Worship
- Prayer & Praise
- Midweek Bible Study
- Steppin' Up Teens
- Brown Street Kids
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Latest from Brown Street Baptist Church's YouTube channel: Sunday evening - August 2, 2026 (all videos).
The community around Brown Street Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About 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 2,200 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 42.9%
- Social Isolation: 35.8%
- Food Insecurity: 20.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.9%
- Depression: 23.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.5%
- Poverty Rate: 20.0% (12.2–27.9%)
- Housing Insecurity: 16.5%
- Diabetes: 13.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.0%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Alton city is served by 41 churches — about one congregation for every 640 residents.
Churches near Brown Street Baptist Church
- Upper Alton Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Free Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Church of Good Samaritan — 0.5 mi away
- College Avenue Presbyterian Church — 0.5 mi away
- Main Street United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Sanford Avenue Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Calvary Southern Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Messiah Lutheran Church — 0.7 mi away
- Main Street Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Emmanuel Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Upper Alton Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Sanford Avenue Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Calvary Southern Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Main Street Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Emmanuel Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away