Mt. Zion UAME Church
Mt. Zion UAME Church is a African_methodist_episcopal_zion church at 100 New London Road in Newark, DE 19711. It is one of 106 churches in Newark.
Mt. Zion UAME was founded in 1868 in an abandoned blacksmith shop near Boogle Run at the corner of New London Rd and Ray St.
Serving since 1979
100 New London Road, Newark, DE, 19711Website: https://www.mtzionuame.org
Mt. Zion UAME Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around Mt. Zion UAME 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 adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line. That is two thousand 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: 37.6%
- Poverty Rate: 23.3% (16.8–29.9%)
- Depression: 26.0%
- Food Insecurity: 15.7%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Newark city is served by 8 churches — about one congregation for every 3,763 residents.
Churches near Mt. Zion UAME Church
- Saint John African Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Prayer Temple Ministries — 0.1 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Grace Temple Apostolic Ministries Tri State — 0.3 mi away
- Newark United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- The Potter's House CFM — 0.6 mi away
- Trinity Presbyterian Church — 0.6 mi away
- InterVarsity Christian Fellowship — 0.7 mi away
- Grace Church — 0.7 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away