Mt. Zion First African Baptist Church
Mt. Zion First African Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 105 Lankford Avenue in Charlottesville, VA 22903. It is one of 168 churches in Charlottesville, and one of 32 Baptist congregations in the city.
Here at the Mt. Zion First African Baptist Church, we are a Bible believing, preaching and teaching church.
105 Lankford Avenue, Charlottesville, VA, 22903Service times
- Sunday 7:45am
- Sunday 10am
- Sunday 8:45am · School
Mt. Zion First African Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,727 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Virginia — 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.
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Latest from Mt. Zion First African Baptist Church's YouTube channel: Sunday Morning Worship Service - September 6, 2026 (all videos).
The community around Mt. Zion First African Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,400 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 36.9% (22.5–51.6%)
- Social Isolation: 36.2%
- Poverty Rate: 25.2% (18.2–32.1%)
- Food Insecurity: 20.3%
- Unemployment: 9.6% (0.0–20.2%)
- Obesity: 39.6%
- Depression: 24.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 16.3%
- Diabetes: 13.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.1% (7.0–15.1%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Charlottesville city is served by 45 churches — about one congregation for every 1,028 residents.
Churches near Mt. Zion First African Baptist Church
- Portico Church — 0.2 mi away
- Charlottesville Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Charlottesville Mennonite Church — 0.5 mi away
- Salvation Army Chapel — 0.5 mi away
- The Shepherd's House Worship Center Inc. — 0.5 mi away
- Southside Christian Church — 0.5 mi away
- Hinton Avenue United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- All Souls Charlottesville — 0.5 mi away
- Belmont Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Bethel Church of God in Christ — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Belmont Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Ebenezer Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Pilgrim Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- University Baptist Church — 1 mi away
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