Sixteenth Street Baptist Church
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Huntington, WV 25703. It is one of 186 churches in Huntington, and one of 35 Baptist congregations in the city.
Huntington, WV, 25703Website: http://www.sixteenthstbaptist.com/
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 771 congregations of the Baptist family gather across West Virginia — 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 Sixteenth 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. About 3 in 4 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,300 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.
- Child Poverty: 80.2%
- Poverty Rate: 53.3%
- Obesity: 48.6%
- Social Isolation: 41.9%
- Depression: 36.8%
- Food Insecurity: 31.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 22.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 21.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 19.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.7%
- Diabetes: 14.5%
- Unemployment: 7.7% (0.9–15.8%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Huntington city is served by 108 churches — about one congregation for every 382 residents.
Churches near Sixteenth Street Baptist Church
- The Living Sanctuary — 0 mi away
- Glorious Church of God in Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Shiloh Seventh-Day Adventist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Encouragers Fellowship Church — 0.1 mi away
- Ebenezer African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Original Glorious Church — 0.2 mi away
- Huntington United Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Peter Claver Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Antioch Missionary Baptist — 0.2 mi away
- Young Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Huntington United Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Antioch Missionary Baptist — 0.2 mi away
- Legacy Church Huntington — 0.5 mi away
- Eighteenth Street United Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Baptist Temple — 0.5 mi away
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