Big Zion Missionary Baptist Church
Big Zion Missionary Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 521-523 West 65th Street in Chicago, IL 60621. It is one of 3,009 churches in Chicago, and one of 434 Baptist congregations in the city.
521-523 West 65th Street, Chicago, IL, 60621Big Zion Missionary Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,210 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Illinois — 71,872 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 Big Zion Missionary Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 5 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,200 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the tables that run short before the month does, and for this church's table to be long.
- Food Insecurity: 57.4%
- Obesity: 49.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 42.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 42.4%
- Social Isolation: 42.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 38.6%
- Poverty Rate: 38.3% (27.7–48.9%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 32.6%
- Unemployment: 32.6% (13.2–52.0%)
- Transportation Barriers: 28.3%
- Diabetes: 25.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 23.8% (12.2–35.3%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.0% (13.7–22.8%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Chicago city is served by 1,693 churches — about one congregation for every 1,580 residents.
Churches near Big Zion Missionary Baptist Church
- Full Gospel Church — 0.2 mi away
- Englewood United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Benedict the African Roman Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Beloved Community Church — 0.2 mi away
- Greater Mount Vernon Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Union Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- True Vine Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Alpha Temple Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Canaan Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Antioch Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Greater Mount Vernon Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Union Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- True Vine Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Alpha Temple Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Canaan Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away