Our Lady of Mercy Roman Catholic Church
Our Lady of Mercy Roman Catholic Church is a Catholic church in Charleston, SC 29403. It is one of 246 churches in Charleston, and one of 5 Catholic congregations in the city.
We, Sisters of Charity of Our Lady of Mercy, the religious congregation founded by Bishop John England in Charleston, South Carolina in 1829, follow Christ by living prayerfully in a supportive community dedicated to the service of God’s people.
Serving since 1989
Charleston, SC, 29403Website: https://sistersofcharityolm.org/
Our Lady of Mercy Roman Catholic Church 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 Our Lady of Mercy Roman Catholic 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 the people here live below the poverty line, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.
- Poverty Rate: 33.8% (23.2–44.4%)
- Social Isolation: 35.6%
- Food Insecurity: 21.9%
- Depression: 25.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 15.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.7%
- Unemployment: 6.3% (1.2–11.4%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Charleston city is served by 112 churches — about one congregation for every 1,322 residents.
Churches near Our Lady of Mercy Roman Catholic Church
- Vanderhorst Memorial Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Friendship Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Jerusalem Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Lukes Reformed Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Carmel Pentecostal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Holy Trinity Anglican Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Johns Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Ebenezer AME Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Carmel United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Victory Church — 0.2 mi away
More Catholic churches nearby
- St. Patrick Catholic Church — 0.6 mi away
- Sacred Heart Catholic Church — 0.7 mi away
- Drexel House — 0.9 mi away
- St. Mary of the Annunciation Catholic Church — 1.1 mi away
- Cathedral of St. John the Baptist — 1.4 mi away
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