Zion Union Baptist Church
Zion Union Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1015 Preston Avenue in Charlottesville, VA 22903. It is one of 168 churches in Charlottesville, and one of 32 Baptist congregations in the city.
GIVING VISIBLE FORM TO THAT FAITH AND FELLOWSHIP TO WHICH GOD HAS CALLED HIS PEOPLE
Serving since 1895
1015 Preston Avenue, Charlottesville, VA, 22903Service times
- Sunday 10am · Morning Worship Services
Zion Union 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 — 71,417 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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Latest from Zion Union Baptist Church's YouTube channel: Zion Union Baptist Church Sunday Service September 13, 2026 (all videos).
The community around Zion Union Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third of the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,300 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.
- Social Isolation: 40.9%
- Poverty Rate: 38.8%
- Child Poverty: 32.3% (18.9–46.1%)
- Depression: 28.0%
- Food Insecurity: 20.1% (15.0–26.7%)
- Unemployment: 8.7% (2.6–15.8%)
- Transportation Barriers: 13.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.1%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Charlottesville city is served by 45 churches — about one congregation for every 1,028 residents.
Churches near Zion Union Baptist Church
- Faith, Hope, and Love Church of Deliverance — 0.1 mi away
- Trinity Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Covenant Pentecostal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Charlottesville — 0.4 mi away
- First Church of Christ Scientist — 0.4 mi away
- Elim Church, Charlottesville, VA — 0.5 mi away
- Westminster Presbyterian Church — 0.5 mi away
- Hephzibaah Church — 0.5 mi away
- Pilgrim Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Rugby Avenue Church of Christ — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Pilgrim Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- University Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Ebenezer Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Grace Faith Chinese Church — 0.9 mi away
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