Mount Zion Baptist Church
Mount Zion Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Akron, OH 44310. It is one of 431 churches in Akron, and one of 63 Baptist congregations in the city.
Akron, OH, 44310Mount Zion Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,342 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Ohio — 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.
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The community around Mount Zion Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 45.3%
- Food Insecurity: 33.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.9%
- Diabetes: 19.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.3%
- Unemployment: 15.6% (4.0–27.3%)
- Social Isolation: 39.2%
- Poverty Rate: 28.1% (13.3–42.9%)
- Housing Insecurity: 24.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.4%
- Depression: 25.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.4%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Akron city is served by 251 churches — about one congregation for every 762 residents.
Churches near Mount Zion Baptist Church
- Chapel of the Transfiguration — 0.3 mi away
- Shelton Temple Church of God in Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Zion Apostolic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Akron Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mount Lebanon Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- North Hill Christian Church — 0.5 mi away
- Christian Teaching Center Church — 0.5 mi away
- St Anthony of Padua Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Anthonys Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
- Holiness Church of God — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Akron Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mount Lebanon Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Elizabeth Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- North Hill Community Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Mount Calvary Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away