Mt. Zion Baptist Church
Mt. Zion Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 857 Main Ave in Passaic, NJ 07055-8421. It is one of 63 churches in Passaic, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
Seeking first the Kingdom of God and all His righteousness, showing the love of Christ to our neighbors, and letting the whole world know that Jesus Christ is the Savior of all.
The City of Passaic has been blessed to have the Mt. Zion Baptist Church as a beacon of hope for the last 140 years.
857 Main Ave, Passaic, NJ, 07055-8421Phone: +19739285966 · Website: https://mtzionofpassaic.org/Home
Mt. Zion Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 728 congregations of the Baptist family gather across New Jersey — 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 Mt. Zion Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 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 nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. That is 2,600 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: 53.6%
- Child Poverty: 48.0% (31.1–64.9%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 42.9%
- Social Isolation: 42.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 41.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 40.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 32.8%
- Poverty Rate: 30.7% (20.1–41.3%)
- Transportation Barriers: 23.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.2%
- Obesity: 40.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.5%
- Diabetes: 17.8%
- Unemployment: 10.1% (3.2–17.0%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Mt. Zion Baptist Church
- William's Chapel AME Zion Church — 0.1 mi away
- Bethel AME Church — 0.1 mi away
- Mt Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Passaic 1 Spanish — 0.2 mi away
- St Anthony Of Padua Church — 0.2 mi away
- St Anthony of Padua — 0.2 mi away
- Primera Iglesia Hispana Hermanos Unidos En Cristo — 0.2 mi away
- New Faith Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- St. John Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Church by the Side of the Road — 0.3 mi away
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- Mt Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
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- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away in Clifton, NJ
- Community Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away in Garfield, NJ
- Calvary Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away in Garfield, NJ
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