Allen Temple African Methodist Episcopal Church
Allen Temple African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church at 1625 Joseph E. Boone Blvd., GA, 30314 in Atlanta, GA 30314. It is one of 940 churches in Atlanta, and one of 47 Methodist congregations in the city.
In 1866, immediately after Emancipation, many ex-slaves and their families settled in Southeast Atlanta, known as Summerhill. Many people loved the principles of the African Methodist Church, and there was a desire to establish a branch of this church in this section.
Wheelchair accessible
1625 Joseph E. Boone Blvd., GA, 30314, Atlanta, GA, 30314Service times
- Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 10am
Phone: (404) 794-3316 · Website: https://www.allentempleatlanta.org/
Allen Temple African Methodist Episcopal Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,458 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Georgia — 25,985 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.
Ministries at Allen Temple African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Food Pantry
- Clothing Closet
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The community around Allen Temple African Methodist Episcopal 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 more than a third of the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,100 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: 40.1%
- Poverty Rate: 38.7% (23.0–54.3%)
- Food Insecurity: 38.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 29.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.4%
- Diabetes: 22.1%
- Obesity: 42.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 20.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 18.9% (11.5–26.3%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.1%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Atlanta city is served by 310 churches — about one congregation for every 1,580 residents.
Churches near Allen Temple African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses — 0.3 mi away
- Triumphant Chapel International Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Pleasant Primitive Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Lutheran Church of the Atonement — 0.4 mi away
- Hunter Hill First Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- North Avenue Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Woodlawn Church — 0.5 mi away
- New Bethel Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Hunter Hills African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- Rehoboth Community Church — 0.6 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
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- Newberry Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.7 mi away
- Georgia Oliver Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- New Spirit United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Holsey Temple Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.9 mi away