First Baptist Church in Dorchester
First Baptist Church in Dorchester is a Baptist church at 401 Ashmont Street in Dorchester, MA 02124. It is one of 26 churches in Dorchester, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
Pastor Dana currently serves as Senior Pastor at the First Baptist Church in Dorchester.
401 Ashmont Street, Dorchester, MA, 02124Service times
Sundays at 10:30am; Tuesday evenings at 6:30pm; Friday, April 18 | 6:30 PM (as listed)
Phone: (617) 282-1391 · Website: http://www.fbcDorchester.com/
First Baptist Church in Dorchester is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 483 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Massachusetts — 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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The community around First Baptist Church in Dorchester
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 nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. That is 2,500 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: 38.2%
- Depression: 23.0%
- Food Insecurity: 15.7%
- Unemployment: 6.2% (2.1–10.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Boston city is served by 162 churches — about one congregation for every 4,110 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church in Dorchester
- Vietnamese Alliance Church of Boston — 0.3 mi away in Dorchester Center, MA
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy — 0.4 mi away in Boston, MA
- St Ann Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away in Boston, MA
- St. Brendan Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away in Boston, MA
- The Parish of All Saints — 0.4 mi away
- St Mark's Area Main St — 0.5 mi away in Dorchester Center, MA
- Father Marcos Enrique (Pastor) — 0.5 mi away in Boston, MA
- Bethel Hispanic Seventh-day Adventist Church — 0.6 mi away
- The Table Church — 0.6 mi away in Boston, MA
More Baptist churches nearby
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Haitian Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away in Boston, MA
- Greater Life Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away in Boston, MA
- City on a Hill Church Lower Mills — 1.2 mi away in Dorchester Center, MA
- New Jerusalem Evangelical Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away in Boston, MA
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