Mount Pleasant Baptist Church
Mount Pleasant Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 215 Rhode Island Avenue Northwest in Washington, DC 20001. It is one of 862 churches in Washington, and one of 214 Baptist congregations in the city.
At Mt. Pleasant we are “Reaching the World with the Gospel.”
Everything we do at Mt. Pleasant is based on the teachings of the Bible, and we take seriously God’s command to go and preach the Gospel to all nations, helping individuals to grow into productive disciples for Christ.
Serving since 1918
215 Rhode Island Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC, 20001Service times
- Saturday 9am
Phone: (202) 332-5748 · Website: https://mpbcdc.com/
Mount Pleasant Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 231 congregations of the Baptist family gather across District of Columbia — 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 Mount Pleasant Baptist Church
- Women's Ministry
- Bible Study
- Prayer Meeting
- Men's Enrichment Bible Study
- Youth Bible Study
- Children's Bible Class
- Women's Enrichment Bible Study
- Children's Ministry
- Nursery Ministry
- Culinary Ministry
- Floral Ministry
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The community around Mount Pleasant Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. Nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression, and about 1 in 10 the people here were born in another country. That is 2,300 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 37.8%
- Depression: 23.1%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Washington city is served by 535 churches — about one congregation for every 1,253 residents.
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- Mount Bethel Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Florida Avenue Baptist Church (former) — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Martin of Tours Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
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