Mount Zion Baptist Church
Mount Zion Baptist Church is a Baptist church in New Orleans, LA 70119. It is one of 824 churches in New Orleans, and one of 286 Baptist congregations in the city.
New Orleans, LA, 70119Mount 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 — 71,417 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 Zion 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. Nearly half of the people here live below the poverty line, and nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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.
- Poverty Rate: 46.3%
- Child Poverty: 45.5%
- Social Isolation: 41.1%
- Food Insecurity: 35.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 26.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.2%
- Diabetes: 18.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.2%
- Depression: 28.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 19.0%
- Obesity: 39.5%
- Unemployment: 6.9% (2.5–18.1%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
New Orleans city is served by 579 churches — about one congregation for every 657 residents.
Churches near Mount Zion Baptist Church
- Harvest Church — 0.1 mi away
- Greater Galilee Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Creation Spiritual Church — 0.1 mi away
- Daily Walking with Christ Jesus Ministries — 0.1 mi away
- Sixth Union Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Miracle Faith Church of God in Church — 0.2 mi away
- Metropolitan Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- St. Ann's Shrine — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Peter Claver Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- St. James Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Greater Galilee Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Sixth Union Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Metropolitan Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- St. James Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Old Zion Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
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