Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church
Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church is a Baptist church in New Orleans, LA 70118. It is one of 824 churches in New Orleans, and one of 286 Baptist congregations in the city.
Part of Fourth District Missionary Baptist Association
New Orleans, LA, 70118Phone: (309) 205-3325
Mount Pilgrim 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.
Ministries at Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church
- After School Tutoring
- Baptist Training Union
- Boy Scouts
- Brotherhood Ministry
- Children and Nursery Departments
- Children and Youth Bible Study
- Counseling Ministry
- Cords of Love Married Couples Ministry
- Deacons Ministry
- Deaconess Ministry
- Family Ministry
- Girl Scouts
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Latest from Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church of Baton Rouge's YouTube channel: Wednesday In The Word: Proverbs 18:24 (9/16/2026) (all videos).
The community around Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third have no one they feel they can count on. That is 2,400 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 41.0%
- Food Insecurity: 29.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.2%
- Depression: 27.7%
- Poverty Rate: 27.3% (17.5–37.2%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 22.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.6%
- Diabetes: 17.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.1% (7.8–22.3%)
- Obesity: 36.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
New Orleans city is served by 579 churches — about one congregation for every 657 residents.
Churches near Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church
- Emanuel Spiritual Church — 0.2 mi away
- Greater Bibleway Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Hollygrove Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Carrollton Avenue Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of the Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith — 0.3 mi away
- St. Nicholas Byzantine Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Faith Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint John the Baptist Church Number 3 — 0.5 mi away
- Faith New Orleans — 0.5 mi away
- Friendship Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Greater Bibleway Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Carrollton Avenue Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Faith Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint John the Baptist Church Number 3 — 0.5 mi away
- Friendship Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
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