Mount Zion Baptist Church

Mount Zion Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Fairmont, WV 26554. It is one of 108 churches in Fairmont, and one of 7 Baptist congregations in the city.

Fairmont, WV, 26554

Mount Zion Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 774 congregations of the Baptist family gather across West 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 Zion Baptist Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is two thousand 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: 49.0%
  • Poverty Rate: 34.6% (23.2–46.1%)
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.4%
  • Depression: 32.9%
  • Food Insecurity: 28.4%
  • Diabetes: 19.5%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.4%
  • Social Isolation: 37.0%
  • Housing Insecurity: 20.3%
  • Unemployment: 8.7% (2.2–15.1%)
  • Transportation Barriers: 15.5%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.0% (6.8–21.2%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Fairmont city is served by 37 churches — about one congregation for every 449 residents.

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