Mt Calvary Baptist Church
Mt Calvary Baptist Church is a church at 1494 Dr Martin Luther King Way in Sarasota, FL 34234. It is one of 219 churches in Sarasota.
1494 Dr Martin Luther King Way, Sarasota, FL, 34234Mt Calvary Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 3,714 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Florida — 71,874 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 Mt Calvary 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. About a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of the people here live without health insurance. That is 2,100 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.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 23.9% (16.6–31.3%)
- Diabetes: 18.6%
- Obesity: 41.9%
- Child Poverty: 35.8% (22.1–49.5%)
- Poverty Rate: 28.4% (19.0–37.8%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 20.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Sarasota city is served by 20 churches — about one congregation for every 2,635 residents.
Churches near Mt Calvary Baptist Church
- Bethel CME Church — 0.3 mi away
- Ecclessia Family Worship Center International — 0.4 mi away
- Payne Chapel AME Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Born Church — 0.4 mi away
- Osprey Avenue Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Shiloh Primitive Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Greater Hurst Chapel AME Church — 0.5 mi away
- New Bethel Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Bethlehem Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Community Bible Church — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Shiloh Primitive Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- New Bethel Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Bethlehem Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Truevine Missionary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Mount Calvary Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away