Mount Olive Baptist Church
Mount Olive Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 2401 Ludlow Street in Norfolk, VA 23504. It is one of 339 churches in Norfolk, and one of 56 Baptist congregations in the city.
2401 Ludlow Street, Norfolk, VA, 23504Mount Olive 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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The community around Mount Olive 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. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.
- Obesity: 51.1%
- Social Isolation: 41.2%
- Food Insecurity: 36.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 27.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 22.1%
- Diabetes: 21.0%
- Poverty Rate: 26.9% (14.2–39.5%)
- Transportation Barriers: 19.2%
- Unemployment: 10.8% (3.5–18.1%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.0% (6.8–19.2%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Norfolk city is served by 176 churches — about one congregation for every 1,346 residents.
Churches near Mount Olive Baptist Church
- United Christian Holiness Church — 0.1 mi away
- Church of Restoration — 0.1 mi away
- Mt Zion Pentecostal Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Bethlehem Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Way the Truth the Life Ministries — 0.4 mi away
- Herald of His Coming Church of God In Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Faith Deliverance Christian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Paul Church of Christ — 0.5 mi away
- New St Mark's Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Holy Jerusalem Church of God in Christ — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- New St Mark's Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Calvary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- New Calvary Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Bethel Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Bethlehem Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away