Beth Shalom African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
Beth Shalom African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church is a African Methodist Episcopal Zion church in Washington, DC 20002. It is one of 862 churches in Washington, and one of 10 African Methodist Episcopal Zion congregations in the city.
Washington, DC, 20002Beth Shalom African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 59 congregations of the Methodist family gather across District of Columbia — 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 Beth Shalom African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 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 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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: 40.7%
- Food Insecurity: 29.8%
- Unemployment: 19.0% (10.0–27.9%)
- Housing Insecurity: 23.8%
- Poverty Rate: 23.0% (10.1–35.8%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.7%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Washington city is served by 535 churches — about one congregation for every 1,253 residents.
Churches near Beth Shalom African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
- Community United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Family Community Fellowship — 0.3 mi away
- Jesus Way Temple Mission Church — 0.3 mi away
- Gateway to Heaven Pentecostal Holiness Church — 0.4 mi away
- Gideon Ministries Int'l Church — 0.4 mi away
- Christian Love Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Bethesda Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Trinity Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Trinidad Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Open Door Temple Church of God in Christ — 0.6 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Community United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Pilgrim African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.7 mi away
- Douglas Memorial Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Brown Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.1 mi away
- Lincoln Park United Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away
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