Monumental Baptist Church
Monumental Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Elmira, NY 14901. It is one of 79 churches in Elmira, and one of 6 Baptist congregations in the city.
Elmira, NY, 14901Monumental 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.
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The community around Monumental 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. Nearly half of the people here live below the poverty line, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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: 46.8% (31.8–61.7%)
- Food Insecurity: 33.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.8%
- Social Isolation: 37.4%
- Child Poverty: 33.1% (13.2–53.0%)
- Housing Insecurity: 23.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 17.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.8%
- Diabetes: 16.0%
- Unemployment: 8.9% (4.6–14.1%)
- Obesity: 37.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.9%
- Depression: 24.5%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Elmira city is served by 41 churches — about one congregation for every 646 residents.
Churches near Monumental Baptist Church
- Church of Saint John the Baptist — 0.2 mi away
- Minnie L Floyd Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.3 mi away
- Lake Street Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.3 mi away
- City of Light — 0.3 mi away
- St. Joseph — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Patrick's Roman Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Ogden Memorial Chapel — 0.3 mi away
- Kingdom Dream Center — 0.3 mi away
- Trinity Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Church of Saint John the Baptist — 0.2 mi away
- United Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Open Door Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Paul Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away