Mount Moriah Missionary Baptist Church
Mount Moriah Missionary Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 505 West Nebraska Avenue in Peoria, IL 61604. It is one of 236 churches in Peoria, and one of 33 Baptist congregations in the city.
505 West Nebraska Avenue, Peoria, IL, 61604Mount Moriah 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 Mount Moriah Missionary Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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.
- Social Isolation: 40.1%
- Food Insecurity: 36.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 27.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.2%
- Obesity: 44.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 18.2%
- Diabetes: 17.9%
- Unemployment: 8.6% (3.2–13.9%)
- Child Poverty: 25.2% (6.7–43.7%)
- Poverty Rate: 22.0% (15.3–28.7%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.0%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Peoria city is served by 130 churches — about one congregation for every 773 residents.
Churches near Mount Moriah Missionary Baptist Church
- Victory Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Testament Fellowship Church — 0.2 mi away
- Heaven's View Christian Fellowship — 0.2 mi away
- First Free Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Redemption Center Church — 0.2 mi away
- House of Prayer Ministries — 0.3 mi away
- Bible Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of the Living God — 0.3 mi away
- Church of the Living God Temple #5 — 0.3 mi away
- Arcadia Avenue Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Good News Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Prince of Peace Missionary Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- St Paul Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Zion Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Star of Hope Full Gospel Baptist — 1.2 mi away