Mount Pleasant Baptist Church
Mount Pleasant Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 441 Washington Avenue in Albany, NY 12206. It is one of 146 churches in Albany, and one of 14 Baptist congregations in the city.
441 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY, 12206Website: http://www.mountpleasantbaptistchurch.org/
Mount Pleasant Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,495 congregations of the Baptist family gather across New York — 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.
Find Mount Pleasant Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Mount Pleasant 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 a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,500 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: 41.7%
- Social Isolation: 41.3%
- Food Insecurity: 32.2%
- Unemployment: 20.9% (10.0–31.7%)
- Housing Insecurity: 24.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 17.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.8%
- Obesity: 36.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.9%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Albany city is served by 75 churches — about one congregation for every 1,329 residents.
Churches near Mount Pleasant Baptist Church
- All Nations Tabernacle — 0.1 mi away
- Shrine Church of Our Lady of the Americas — 0.1 mi away
- Blessed Hope Worship Center — 0.2 mi away
- Assisi In Albany — 0.2 mi away
- First Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint John's Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Morning Star Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- St. Francis Mission — 0.2 mi away
- Church of Jesus Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Morning Star Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Star of Bethlehem Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Chapel Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Emmanuel Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away