Greater Mount Gideon Baptist Church
Greater Mount Gideon Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Baton Rouge, LA 70802. It is one of 572 churches in Baton Rouge, and one of 125 Baptist congregations in the city.
Baton Rouge, LA, 70802Greater Mount Gideon Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,388 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Louisiana — 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 Greater Mount Gideon Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 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 about 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: 40.5%
- Food Insecurity: 34.4%
- Poverty Rate: 33.8% (22.3–45.3%)
- Housing Insecurity: 25.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.3%
- Unemployment: 12.2% (4.6–19.7%)
- Obesity: 40.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.6%
- Depression: 27.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 18.4%
- Diabetes: 16.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Baton Rouge city is served by 212 churches — about one congregation for every 1,006 residents.
Churches near Greater Mount Gideon Baptist Church
- Greater Saint Johns Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Emanuel Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Emmanuel Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint James Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Luke Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Pleasant Green Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Jerusalem Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Paul Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Canaan Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Greater Antioch Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Greater Saint Johns Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Emanuel Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Emmanuel Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint James Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Luke Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
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