Metropolitan Wesley African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
Metropolitan Wesley African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church is a African Methodist Episcopal Zion church at 1712 North Capitol Street Northwest in Washington, DC 20002. It is one of 862 churches in Washington, and one of 10 African Methodist Episcopal Zion congregations in the city.
Metropolitan Wesley African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, founded in 1832, served as a station on the famed “Underground Railroad”, is the birthplace of the first Public School for Washington’s African-American children, and is the “Mother Church” of the witness of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in the nation’s capitol.
Serving since 1832
1712 North Capitol Street Northwest, Washington, DC, 20002Service times
- Tuesday 6:30pm
Phone: +1 202-483-3262 · Website: http://metropolitanwesley.org/
Metropolitan Wesley 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 Metropolitan Wesley African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,100 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: 36.0%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Washington city is served by 535 churches — about one congregation for every 1,253 residents.
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