Mount Gilliam Baptist Church
Mount Gilliam Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Memphis, TN 38114. It is one of 1,544 churches in Memphis, and one of 427 Baptist congregations in the city.
Mount Gilliam Missionary Baptist Church has stood for over a century as a spiritual and cultural cornerstone in Orange Mound, Memphis — a community recognized as one of the first neighborhoods in the United States built by and for African Americans.
Memphis, TN, 38114Service times
- Sunday 11:15am · Worship Begins
Mount Gilliam Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 3,872 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Tennessee — 71,418 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 Gilliam Baptist Church
- Youth Programs
- Community Outreach
- Spiritual Counseling
- Bible Studies
- Children's Programs
- Teen Programs
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The community around Mount Gilliam Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of adults live with diabetes. That is 2,100 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: 49.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.2%
- Diabetes: 25.0%
- Unemployment: 19.4% (7.9–31.0%)
- Poverty Rate: 28.5% (15.4–41.6%)
- Depression: 23.3%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.2% (7.3–21.0%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Memphis city is served by 1,033 churches — about one congregation for every 596 residents.
Churches near Mount Gilliam Baptist Church
- Lambert Church of God in Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Mount Ararat Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Love, Stewardship & Christ Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Pisgah Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Beulah Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Bethel Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Christ Community Orange Mound Church — 0.3 mi away
- Calvary Temple Church of God in Christ — 0.4 mi away
- New Hope Church of God — 0.4 mi away
- Trueway Church of Jesus Christ — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mount Ararat Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Beulah Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Bethel Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Salem Missionary Baptist — 0.6 mi away
- Mount Moriah Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away