Mount Olivet Baptist Church
Mount Olivet Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 201 Lenox Avenue in New York, NY 10027. It is one of 3,431 churches in New York, and one of 284 Baptist congregations in the city.
The purpose of our church is to advance the kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Mount Olivet has a long and illustrious history. Organized in 1878, in our 133 years of existence we have had only seven pastors and each one served faithfully.
201 Lenox Avenue, New York, NY, 10027Shares a ministry location with Faith Temple Deliverance Church.
Mount Olivet Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,466 congregations of the Baptist family gather across New York — 71,417 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.
Ministries at Mount Olivet Baptist Church
- Community Meals Program
- Clothing Distribution
- Food Pantry
- Prayer Meeting
- Mt. Olivet Girl Scouts
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The community around Mount Olivet Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. Nearly a quarter have no one they feel they can count on, and about 1 in 5 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 5,800 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 40.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.8%
- Food Insecurity: 19.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 17.9%
- Poverty Rate: 16.7% (9.8–23.6%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.6%
- Unemployment: 6.0% (2.1–10.0%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 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 Olivet Baptist Church
- Faith Temple Deliverance Church — 0 mi away
- Ebenezer Gospel Tabernacle — 0 mi away
- Saint Martin's Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Mount Morris Ascension Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Bethelite Community Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Greater Bethel AME Church — 0.1 mi away
- Second St. John Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Unity In Harlem — 0.1 mi away
- Rejoice Ministries The Church of Healing — 0.1 mi away
- International Gospel Helpers Church Inc — 0.1 mi away
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