Main Street Baptist Church
Main 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, 62002Main 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.
Find Main Street Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Main Street Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is two thousand 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: 46.6%
- Food Insecurity: 26.7%
- Social Isolation: 36.3%
- Poverty Rate: 27.4% (16.8–38.0%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 20.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.9%
- Depression: 24.3%
- Diabetes: 14.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.3%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Alton city is served by 41 churches — about one congregation for every 640 residents.
Churches near Main Street Baptist Church
- Sanford Avenue Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Free Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Emmanuel Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Liberty Christian Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.5 mi away
- Calvary Southern Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Main Street United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Greater Glory Tabernacle — 0.6 mi away
- Brown Street Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- College Avenue Presbyterian Church — 0.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Sanford Avenue Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Emmanuel Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Calvary Southern Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Brown Street Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Victory Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away