Mount Mariah Baptist Church
Mount Mariah Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Gary, IN 46407. It is one of 275 churches in Gary, and one of 67 Baptist congregations in the city.
Gary, IN, 46407Mount Mariah Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,291 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Indiana — 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 Mariah Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 7 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. More than 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: 72.6% (53.5–90.7%)
- Obesity: 56.6%
- Food Insecurity: 52.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 43.5%
- Poverty Rate: 35.6% (22.4–48.9%)
- Housing Insecurity: 35.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 34.2%
- Diabetes: 28.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 25.5%
- Social Isolation: 37.6%
- Unemployment: 11.9% (0.0–26.2%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.0%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Gary city is served by 184 churches — about one congregation for every 375 residents.
Churches near Mount Mariah Baptist Church
- Allen Chapel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Mount Moriah Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Church of God in Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Christ Temple Church of God — 0.1 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Trinity Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Unity Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Williams Chapel Church of God — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- New Mount Moriah Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Trinity Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Unity Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away