Central Baptist Church
Central Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 26 Radcliffe Street in Charleston, SC 29403. It is one of 246 churches in Charleston, and one of 36 Baptist congregations in the city.
Making disciples of all men and teaching them to want what God wants.
Come and experience a community that embraces everyone, members and guests alike, with the love of God.
26 Radcliffe Street, Charleston, SC, 29403Service times
- Sunday 11am
Phone: (843) 577-4543 · Website: https://www.centralbccharleston.com
Central Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 3,009 congregations of the Baptist family gather across South Carolina — 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 Central Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,100 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: 41.4% (27.6–55.2%)
- Social Isolation: 37.6%
- Depression: 29.0%
- Food Insecurity: 18.6% (13.9–24.7%)
- Unemployment: 7.5% (1.6–13.4%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Charleston city is served by 112 churches — about one congregation for every 1,322 residents.
Churches near Central Baptist Church
- St. Patrick Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Morris Street Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Morris Brown AME Church — 0.1 mi away
- The St. Luke and St. Paul Anglican Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Mark's Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- St. Andrew's City Church — 0.2 mi away
- Shiloh Ame Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Cannon Street Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- St. Matthew's German Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint James United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Morris Street Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Cannon Street Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Citadel Square Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- The New Tabernacle Fourth Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Memorial Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
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