Mount Gilead Baptist Church
Mount Gilead Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1682 Morris Avenue in New York, NY 10457. It is one of 3,431 churches in New York, and one of 194 Baptist congregations in the city.
1682 Morris Avenue, New York, NY, 10457Mount Gilead 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 Mount Gilead 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 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 7,600 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: 42.2%
- Social Isolation: 41.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 35.0%
- Poverty Rate: 32.2% (20.2–44.2%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.9%
- Child Poverty: 39.5% (21.8–57.2%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 18.6%
- Diabetes: 15.1%
- Unemployment: 10.2% (3.7–16.9%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.1% (4.6–19.5%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 8 census tracts near this church.
New York city is served by 2,102 churches — about one congregation for every 4,102 residents.
Churches near Mount Gilead Baptist Church
- Christian Marjorie — 0.1 mi away in Bronx, NY
- International Christian Church — 0.1 mi away in Bronx, NY
- Iglesia Alabanza Del Senor — 0.1 mi away
- Remnant of Grace Church, Inc. — 0.1 mi away in Bronx, NY
- Joy Fellowship Church — 0.2 mi away
- Charity Baptist Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- North Bronx Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away in Bronx, NY
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovahs Witnesses — 0.3 mi away
- Tabernacle of Joy Seventh-day Adventist Church — 0.3 mi away in Bronx, NY
- Mt. Horeb Holiness Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
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- Mount Cella Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Fountain Spring Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Walker Memorial Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away in Bronx, NY
- Greater Zion Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away