Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church
Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1501 Newton Road in Albany, GA 31701. It is one of 222 churches in Albany, and one of 43 Baptist congregations in the city.
our aim is to uphold the Great Commission.
The Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church was founded in 1920 under the leadership and Pastorate of the Late Grant Edgar Hall.
Serving since 1920
1501 Newton Road, Albany, GA, 31701Phone: (229) 436-7872
Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 5,847 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Georgia — 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.
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The community around Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 8 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 85.1%
- Obesity: 49.0%
- Food Insecurity: 48.3%
- Social Isolation: 44.7%
- Poverty Rate: 43.9% (29.8–58.0%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 40.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 35.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 27.3%
- Unemployment: 27.0% (13.8–40.3%)
- Diabetes: 25.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 24.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 21.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.9% (8.3–23.4%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Albany city is served by 52 churches — about one congregation for every 1,263 residents.
Churches near Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church
- Mount Olive Primitive Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Jerusalem Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Third Kiokee Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Bethany Temple Church Of God In Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Zion Travails House of Prayer — 0.3 mi away
- Grants Chapel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mount Moriah Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mount Olive Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- House of Refuge Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- House of God Miracle Rvvl Church — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mount Olive Primitive Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Jerusalem Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Moriah Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mount Olive Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mt Zion Baptist Church Family Center — 0.6 mi away