Old Zion Baptist Church
Old Zion Baptist Church is a Baptist church in New Orleans, LA 70119. It is one of 824 churches in New Orleans, and one of 266 Baptist congregations in the city.
New Orleans, LA, 70119Old Zion 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 Old Zion Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than half of the people here live below the poverty line, and more than half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. That is 2,200 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: 60.2%
- Child Poverty: 56.1%
- Food Insecurity: 44.7%
- Social Isolation: 41.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 32.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 29.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 23.8%
- Diabetes: 20.4%
- Obesity: 43.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.2%
- Depression: 29.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.5% (4.4–20.9%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
New Orleans city is served by 579 churches — about one congregation for every 657 residents.
Churches near Old Zion Baptist Church
- Christian Sunlight Spiritual Mission — 0.1 mi away
- Cosmopolitan Evangelistic Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Greater Tulane Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Grace United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Sixth Union Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Daily Walking with Christ Jesus Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- Holy Temple Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Saint James African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Central Congregational Church — 0.2 mi away
- Greater Galilee Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Greater Tulane Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Sixth Union Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Greater Galilee Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Christian Unity Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Zion Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
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