Mount Gilead Baptist Church
Mount Gilead Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 404 Dowd Street in Durham, NC 27701. It is one of 446 churches in Durham, and one of 55 Baptist congregations in the city.
404 Dowd Street, Durham, NC, 27701Mount Gilead Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 4,587 congregations of the Baptist family gather across North Carolina — 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 Mount Gilead Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. Nearly a quarter of the people here live without health insurance, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the tables that run short before the month does, and for this church's table to be long.
- Food Insecurity: 25.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 24.1% (16.5–31.6%)
- Obesity: 41.7%
- Social Isolation: 34.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 20.1%
- Depression: 24.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.6%
- Poverty Rate: 17.2% (8.8–25.6%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.5%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Durham city is served by 183 churches — about one congregation for every 1,296 residents.
Churches near Mount Gilead Baptist Church
- Union Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Olivet Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Bishop George G. Bloomer — 0.2 mi away
- Shabach Outreach Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- Bethlehem Temple Apostolic Faith Church — 0.2 mi away
- Bethel Family Worship Center — 0.2 mi away
- Grace Park Church — 0.3 mi away
- Nehemiah Church C.O.G.I.C. — 0.3 mi away
- Farm Church — 0.3 mi away
- Calvary United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Union Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Olivet Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Grace Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Greater Saint Paul Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
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