Mount Zion Baptist Church

Mount Zion Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 8101 Erdrick Street in Philadelphia, PA 19136. It is one of 1,755 churches in Philadelphia, and one of 239 Baptist congregations in the city.

Serving since 1897

8101 Erdrick Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19136

Shares a ministry location with Mt Zion Baptist Church of Holmesburg.

Mount Zion Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,509 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Pennsylvania — 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 Zion Baptist Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. About 1 in 5 describe their own health as fair or poor, and about 1 in 15 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. That is two thousand 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.

  • Depression: 23.9%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.5%
  • Unemployment: 7.7% (2.3–13.1%)

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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