First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Baltimore, MD 21207. It is one of 1,253 churches in Baltimore, and one of 218 Baptist congregations in the city.
Baltimore, MD, 21207Shares a ministry location with North Star Baptist Church.
First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 993 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Maryland — 71,418 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
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 about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,300 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: 42.0%
- Food Insecurity: 33.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 27.3%
- Diabetes: 20.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.1%
- Unemployment: 12.7% (4.3–21.0%)
- Obesity: 44.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.8%
- Poverty Rate: 23.3% (13.7–32.9%)
- Child Poverty: 24.1% (7.2–41.1%)
- Transportation Barriers: 16.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Baltimore city is served by 721 churches — about one congregation for every 810 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- North Star Baptist Church — 0 mi away in Gwynn Oak, MD
- New All Saints Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Greater Works Kingdom Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- Bible Way Christian Fellowship — 0.2 mi away
- Bibleway Free Will Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Church of the Brethren — 0.2 mi away
- Park Community United Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Parklane Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Gwynn Oak Community Christian Church — 0.3 mi away in Columbia, MD
- New Covenant Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Bibleway Free Will Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Parklane Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Covenant Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Saint Mark Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Progressive First Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
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