Basilica of Saint Lawrence
Basilica of Saint Lawrence is a Catholic church at 97 Haywood Street in Asheville, NC 28801. It is one of 225 churches in Asheville, and one of 2 Catholic congregations in the city.
97 Haywood Street, Asheville, NC, 28801Phone: +18282526042 · Website: https://www.saintlawrencebasilica.org
Basilica of Saint Lawrence is part of the Catholic family of churches in The American Church Story. 274 congregations of the Catholic family gather across North Carolina — 19,012 across the United States on The Church Map.
From the Catholic Church the whole body received the canon of Scripture, the creeds still recited every Sunday in traditions that never look to Rome, and monasteries that kept learning and Scripture alive through a thousand unlit years. Its parishes remain the largest network of schools, hospitals, and shelters in America, most of them serving people who will never attend a Mass.
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The community around Basilica of Saint Lawrence
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. About a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Poverty Rate: 33.2% (22.2–44.2%)
- Obesity: 36.4%
- Social Isolation: 30.5%
- Depression: 25.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.6%
- Food Insecurity: 18.6%
- Diabetes: 14.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.7% (2.9–24.5%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.2%
- Unemployment: 7.3% (0.5–14.7%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Asheville city is served by 77 churches — about one congregation for every 902 residents.
Churches near Basilica of Saint Lawrence
- First Church of Christ, Scientist — 0.2 mi away
- Christian Science Reading Room — 0.2 mi away
- Central United Methodist Church of Asheville — 0.3 mi away
- Summit Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Ever Learning Faith Ministries — 0.3 mi away
- WNC Baptist Fellowship Church — 0.4 mi away
- Trinity Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.4 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.5 mi away
More Catholic churches nearby
- Diocese of Charlotte — 2.4 mi away
- Saint Joan of Arc Catholic Church — 6.9 mi away in Candler, NC
- St Matthew Anglican Church — 7.4 mi away in Weaverville, NC
- St. Michael And All Angels — 8.9 mi away
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