Twentysixth Street Baptist Church

Twentysixth 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, 25703

Service times

  • Sunday 10am · School begins

Website: https://www.26stbaptist.org/

Twentysixth 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 — 71,418 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 Twentysixth Street Baptist Church

  • Sunday School
  • Nursery
  • Music Ministry
  • Impact Youth Group
  • Golden Age

Find Twentysixth Street Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.

The community around Twentysixth Street 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. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults here carry depression. 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.

  • Obesity: 49.9%
  • Depression: 35.1%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.5%
  • Food Insecurity: 26.8%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.4%
  • Social Isolation: 39.2%
  • Child Poverty: 32.5% (20.5–55.1%)
  • Poverty Rate: 29.7% (19.6–39.9%)
  • Housing Insecurity: 20.0%
  • Diabetes: 16.4%
  • Unemployment: 10.5% (4.5–16.5%)
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.3%
  • Transportation Barriers: 15.0%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Huntington city is served by 108 churches — about one congregation for every 382 residents.

Churches near Twentysixth Street Baptist Church

More Baptist churches nearby

See all churches in Huntington, WV · All churches in West Virginia