First Zion Baptist Church
First Zion Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 2200 Jackson Ave in New Orleans, LA 70113-2438. It is one of 824 churches in New Orleans, and one of 286 Baptist congregations in the city.
On December 1,1887 the late Stevens Bryant with his few faithful Liberty Street members organized what was known then as the “Tin Top Church.”
2200 Jackson Ave, New Orleans, LA, 70113-2438Phone: (504) 302-1344 · Website: https://firstzionbaptistchurch.org/
First Zion Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,378 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Louisiana — 71,418 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 First Zion Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 5 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is two thousand 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.
- Food Insecurity: 46.4%
- Social Isolation: 42.9%
- Poverty Rate: 40.9% (23.6–58.3%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 36.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 33.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 28.1%
- Diabetes: 23.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 23.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 20.3% (9.0–31.5%)
- Obesity: 43.5%
- Depression: 28.4%
- Unemployment: 9.8% (2.2–18.3%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.4%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
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- Blessings Beyond International Church — 0.1 mi away
- Back To the Bible Christian Fellowship Church — 0.1 mi away
- Fifth Church of Christ Scientist — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Paul Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Church of God in Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Peoples United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Ararat Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Second King Solomon Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Hope Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Saint Paul Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Mount Ararat Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Second King Solomon Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Hope Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Second Mount Everest Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
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