First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 61 Church Street in Charleston, SC 29401. It is one of 239 churches in Charleston, and one of 20 Baptist congregations in the city.
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61 Church Street, Charleston, SC, 29401Website: https://www.fbcharleston.org/
First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around First Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly a quarter of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 5 the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,200 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.
- Social Isolation: 29.1%
- Poverty Rate: 18.3% (9.6–27.0%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Charleston city is served by 112 churches — about one congregation for every 1,322 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Uptown Church — 0.1 mi away
- First (Scots) Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- St. Michael's Church — 0.2 mi away
- French Huguenot Church — 0.3 mi away
- St. Philip's Church — 0.3 mi away
- Cathedral of St. John the Baptist — 0.3 mi away
- Circular Congregational Church — 0.3 mi away
- Gage Hall — 0.4 mi away
- Unitarian Church in Charleston — 0.4 mi away
- St. John's Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away