Mount Olive Baptist Church
Mount Olive Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Knoxville, TN 37915. It is one of 684 churches in Knoxville, and one of 128 Baptist congregations in the city.
Knoxville, TN, 37915Service times
- Sunday 9am · Service Times Creation Cafe for Children & Parents 5th grade
- Sunday 9:30am · Service Times Creation Cafe for Children & Parents 5th grade
Mount Olive Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 3,871 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Tennessee — 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 Olive Baptist Church
- Children's Mission Activities
- Bible Study Groups
- Student Ministry
- Creation Cafe
- Meal
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Latest from Mount Olive Baptist Church's YouTube channel: MOBC 10:45AM Service 9/13/2026 (all videos).
The community around Mount Olive Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 6 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and nearly half of the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,200 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 67.5% (50.1–84.8%)
- Obesity: 47.3%
- Poverty Rate: 45.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.7%
- Depression: 33.1%
- Diabetes: 21.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.5% (5.6–19.3%)
- Unemployment: 7.3% (0.1–14.7%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Knoxville city is served by 226 churches — about one congregation for every 868 residents.
Churches near Mount Olive Baptist Church
- Mount Calvary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Overcoming Believers Church — 0.3 mi away
- First African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.4 mi away
- Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Refuge Praise Worship Center — 0.6 mi away
- CRC Knox — 0.6 mi away
- New Salem Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Greater Ebenezer Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Lennon-Seney United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mount Calvary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- New Salem Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Greater Ebenezer Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Greenway Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
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