Mount Zion Baptist Church
Mount Zion Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 2235 Bond Avenue in East Saint Louis, IL 62207. It is one of 65 churches in East Saint Louis, and one of 18 Baptist congregations in the city.
2235 Bond Avenue, East Saint Louis, IL, 62207Mount Zion Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,174 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Illinois — 71,420 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 Zion Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 5 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third 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: 100.0%
- Obesity: 51.4%
- Food Insecurity: 42.1%
- Social Isolation: 40.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 37.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 31.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 24.4%
- Diabetes: 23.3%
- Poverty Rate: 30.0% (13.9–46.4%)
- Transportation Barriers: 20.5%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
East St. Louis city is served by 78 churches — about one congregation for every 249 residents.
Churches near Mount Zion Baptist Church
- Union Full Gospel Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away in East St. Louis, IL
- Bride of Christ Church of God in Christ — 0.3 mi away in East St. Louis, IL
- Bethel Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Lightner's Temple Church of Holiness — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Olive Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Bread of Life Christian Center — 0.4 mi away
- Bethlehem Healing Temple Church — 0.4 mi away
- Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away in East St. Louis, IL
- Israelite Spiritual Church — 0.4 mi away in East St. Louis, IL
- Tremont Temple Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away in East St. Louis, IL
More Baptist churches nearby
- Union Full Gospel Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away in East St. Louis, IL
- Mount Olive Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away in East St. Louis, IL
- Tremont Temple Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away in East St. Louis, IL
- Greater New Hope Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away in East St Louis, IL
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