What time are services at First Baptist Church?

First Baptist Church meets Sunday at 9:15am. Times are the church's local time — confirm with the church before visiting.

What denomination is First Baptist Church?

First Baptist Church in Durham, NC is a Baptist church. It is one of 55 Baptist congregations in Durham.

First Baptist Church

First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Durham, NC 27701. It is one of 446 churches in Durham, and one of 55 Baptist congregations in the city.

Durham, NC, 27701

Service times

Sunday 9:15am

Shares a ministry location with Two Journeys.

First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 4,587 congregations of the Baptist family gather across North Carolina — 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

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.

Social Isolation: 33.2%
Obesity: 38.3%
Depression: 24.8%
Food Insecurity: 20.0%
Poverty Rate: 19.0% (10.5–27.5%)
Housing Insecurity: 15.8%
Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.8% (6.9–16.8%)
Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.1%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Durham city is served by 183 churches — about one congregation for every 1,296 residents.

Churches near First Baptist Church

Two Journeys — 0 mi away
Trinity United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
Bethlehem Temple Apostolic Faith Church — 0.2 mi away
Nehemiah Church C.O.G.I.C. — 0.2 mi away
First Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
United House of Prayer — 0.2 mi away
Saint Philips Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
Union Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
Shabach Outreach Ministries — 0.3 mi away
Grace Park Church — 0.3 mi away

More Baptist churches nearby

Union Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
Olivet Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
Mount Gilead Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
Grace Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
Greater Saint Paul Missionary Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away

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