Allen Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Allen Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church is a church in Birmingham, AL 35212. It is one of 848 churches in Birmingham.
Birmingham, AL, 35212Allen Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,333 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Alabama — 25,370 across the United States on The Church Map.
Methodism gave the church the class meeting, the circuit rider, and the Sunday school, and gave America the conviction that grace is genuinely for everyone — carried into prisons, mines, and mill towns by preachers who owned almost nothing. Charles Wesley's hymns are still sung in nearly every tradition, most of them by people who have no idea whose they are.
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The community around Allen Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 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 2,200 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: 45.3%
- Social Isolation: 41.3%
- Food Insecurity: 35.4%
- Poverty Rate: 30.6% (18.8–42.5%)
- Housing Insecurity: 25.2%
- Diabetes: 20.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.5%
- Child Poverty: 39.5% (20.5–58.6%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 17.1%
- Unemployment: 11.7% (3.5–19.8%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.0% (6.5–17.4%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Birmingham city is served by 254 churches — about one congregation for every 722 residents.
Churches near Allen Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church
- South Woodlawn Church of Christ — 0 mi away
- Woodlawn Deliverance Temple — 0.1 mi away
- Jackson Street Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Old Ship African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.2 mi away
- True Vine Church and Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- Eagles Nest Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Metropolitan Community Church — 0.2 mi away
- Fairview Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of The Glorious Light of the Apostolic Faith — 0.4 mi away
- Williams Chapel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Old Ship African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.2 mi away
- Williams Chapel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Woodlawn United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- First Wesleyan Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Saint Paul Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.4 mi away
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