Jerusalem Baptist Church
Jerusalem Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 52 Cooper Street in Charleston, SC 29403. It is one of 246 churches in Charleston, and one of 36 Baptist congregations in the city.
52 Cooper Street, Charleston, SC, 29403Jerusalem 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 — 71,417 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 Jerusalem Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third of 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: 34.9%
- Poverty Rate: 30.0% (20.8–39.2%)
- Food Insecurity: 23.5%
- Depression: 24.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 17.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.9%
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 Jerusalem Baptist Church
- Vanderhorst Memorial Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Mount Carmel United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Our Lady of Mercy Roman Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Greater Mount Pisgah Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Friendship Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Lukes Reformed Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Ebenezer AME Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Carmel Pentecostal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Holy Trinity Anglican Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Johns Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Greater Mount Pisgah Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Friendship Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Eastside Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Memorial Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Step of Faith Outreach Ministry — 0.6 mi away
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