Mount Vernon Baptist Church
Mount Vernon Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 458 E. Rittenhouse Street in Philadelphia, PA 19144. It is one of 1,755 churches in Philadelphia, and one of 298 Baptist congregations in the city.
Our ultimate aim is to preach, teach and share the news of Jesus Christ that all men might receive Him as Savior and Lord.
The Mount Vernon Baptist Church congregation has been worshipping God together for more than eighty years.
458 E. Rittenhouse Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19144Service times
- Sunday 9:30am · mornings with a continental breakfast
Phone: (215) 848-1113
Mount Vernon Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,478 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Pennsylvania — 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 Vernon Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 describe their own health as fair or poor. About 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, and about 1 in 7 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. That is 2,600 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.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.3%
- Diabetes: 19.2%
- Unemployment: 15.1% (5.2–25.0%)
- Obesity: 42.2%
- Poverty Rate: 26.1% (15.7–36.6%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Philadelphia city is served by 1,051 churches — about one congregation for every 1,515 residents.
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- Christ Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Poplar Street AME Zion Church — 0.2 mi away
- Basilica Shrine of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal — 0.2 mi away
- Praise Power and Deliverance Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- High Street Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- New Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
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- Providence Baptist Church of Germantown — 0.3 mi away
- Saint James Community Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
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