New Mount Zion Baptist Church
New Mount Zion Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 171 West 140th Street in New York, NY 10030. It is one of 3,431 churches in New York, and one of 194 Baptist congregations in the city.
171 West 140th Street, New York, NY, 10030Website: http://nmzbc.org/
New Mount Zion 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 New Mount Zion Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. That is 9,600 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.
- Social Isolation: 45.0%
- Child Poverty: 44.1% (28.5–59.8%)
- Food Insecurity: 39.8%
- Poverty Rate: 37.4% (27.0–47.8%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 36.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 31.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 19.8%
- Unemployment: 10.1% (4.7–15.5%)
- Diabetes: 14.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.0%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
New York city is served by 2,102 churches — about one congregation for every 4,102 residents.
Churches near New Mount Zion Baptist Church
- Church of Scientology Harlem — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Charles Borromeo Roman Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Abyssinian Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Mount Calvary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mother African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.2 mi away
- Minisink Townhouse — 0.2 mi away
- Harlem Church NYC — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Mark's Roman Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Union Congregational Church — 0.2 mi away
- Beulah Wesleyan Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Abyssinian Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Mount Calvary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Union Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Churchill Baptist Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away