First Colored Baptist Church
First Colored Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Baltimore, MD 21205. It is one of 1,253 churches in Baltimore, and one of 218 Baptist congregations in the city.
Baltimore, MD, 21205First Colored Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 993 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Maryland — 71,420 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 Colored 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 half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half 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.
- Child Poverty: 55.6%
- Food Insecurity: 52.5%
- Poverty Rate: 50.1%
- Obesity: 48.8%
- Social Isolation: 45.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 41.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 39.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 31.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 27.2%
- Diabetes: 23.7%
- Unemployment: 18.8% (7.8–30.3%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.2%
- Depression: 25.2%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Baltimore city is served by 721 churches — about one congregation for every 810 residents.
Churches near First Colored Baptist Church
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- Church of Our Saviour — 0.1 mi away
- Fountain Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Faith Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Charity Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Greater Grace Harvest Church — 0.2 mi away
- Waters Avenue African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Old Landmark Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
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- Old Landmark Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Friendship Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
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