Drexel House
Drexel House is a Roman Catholic church at 34 Wentworth Street in Charleston, SC 29401. It is one of 246 churches in Charleston, and one of 3 Roman Catholic congregations in the city.
34 Wentworth Street, Charleston, SC, 29401Drexel House is part of the Catholic family of churches in The American Church Story. 148 congregations of the Catholic family gather across South 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 Drexel House
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 about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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: 36.3% (21.6–50.9%)
- Social Isolation: 35.7%
- Depression: 27.6%
- Food Insecurity: 17.6% (12.8–22.5%)
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 Drexel House
- Redeemer Presbyterian Church — 0 mi away
- St. Johannes Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- St. Stephen's Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Charleston Wesley Foundation — 0.1 mi away
- The Way CHS — 0.1 mi away
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Centenary United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- St. John's Reformed Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- St. Mary of the Annunciation Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
More Catholic churches nearby
- St. Mary of the Annunciation Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Cathedral of St. John the Baptist — 0.6 mi away
- St. Patrick Catholic Church — 0.6 mi away
- Our Lady of Mercy Roman Catholic Church — 0.9 mi away
- Sacred Heart Catholic Church — 1.5 mi away
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