Morris Street Baptist Church
Morris Street Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 25 Morris Street in Charleston, SC 29403. It is one of 246 churches in Charleston, and one of 36 Baptist congregations in the city.
From a two-room building on Morris Street, Morris Street Baptist Church emerged as the "Mother Church among Negro Baptists" in The Low Country of South Carolina on May 9, 1865.
Elevator · Part of Charleston County Missionary Baptist Association
25 Morris Street, Charleston, SC, 29403Service times
- Sunday 10am
Phone: (843) 723-0408 · Website: https://www.morrisstreetbaptist.org
Morris Street 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.
Ministries at Morris Street Baptist Church
- Food Bank
- Social Butterflies
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Latest from Morris Street Baptist Church's YouTube channel: Morris Street Baptist Church Usher's Anniversary - September 14, 2026 (all videos).
The community around Morris Street 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 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: 41.5% (28.2–54.8%)
- Social Isolation: 37.2%
- Depression: 28.9%
- Food Insecurity: 18.6% (13.8–24.9%)
- Unemployment: 6.9% (1.4–12.5%)
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 Morris Street Baptist Church
- Central Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Morris Brown AME Church — 0.1 mi away
- St. Patrick Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Cannon Street Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Mark's Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- The St. Luke and St. Paul Anglican Church — 0.2 mi away
- Shiloh Ame Church — 0.2 mi away
- St. Andrew's City Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint James United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Manna Life Center — 0.2 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Central 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 — 0.5 mi away
- Memorial Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
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