Mount Salem Baptist Church
Mount Salem Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Staunton, VA 24401. It is one of 101 churches in Staunton, and one of 8 Baptist congregations in the city.
Staunton, VA, 24401Mount Salem Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,736 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Virginia — 71,872 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 Salem Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 35.3%
- Obesity: 38.5%
- Depression: 25.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.3%
- Poverty Rate: 17.3% (11.1–23.6%)
- Food Insecurity: 16.4%
- Diabetes: 13.0%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Staunton city is served by 46 churches — about one congregation for every 556 residents.
Churches near Mount Salem Baptist Church
- Promiseland Christian Fellowship Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Stephen Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Allen Chapel Staunton African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Church of God in Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Staunton Grace Covenant Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Church of the Nazarene — 0.5 mi away
- Emanuel Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- Trinity Episcopal Church — 0.6 mi away
- Central United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Ebenezer Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Mount Zion Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Linden Heights Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away