Allen Temple African Methodist Episcopal Church
Allen Temple African Methodist Episcopal Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 2960 South Federal Street in Chicago, IL 60616. It is one of 3,009 churches in Chicago, and one of 13 African Methodist Episcopal congregations in the city.
2960 South Federal Street, Chicago, IL, 60616Allen Temple African Methodist Episcopal Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,029 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Illinois — 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 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. Nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, 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.
- Food Insecurity: 45.1%
- Social Isolation: 40.7%
- Poverty Rate: 40.1% (25.8–54.5%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 32.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.8%
- Diabetes: 18.3%
- Unemployment: 16.0% (7.0–25.1%)
- Transportation Barriers: 21.8%
- Obesity: 38.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.5% (11.1–18.4%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.5% (5.8–17.2%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Chicago city is served by 1,693 churches — about one congregation for every 1,580 residents.
Churches near Allen Temple African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Mount Carmel Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Santa Lucia Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- St. James Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Liberty Union Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Jerome's Croatian Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Jacobs House Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Creation Church — 0.4 mi away
- Trinity Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- New Life Community Church in Bridgeport — 0.5 mi away
- Pilgrim Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Quinn Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.7 mi away
- Hartzell United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Blackwell-Israel Samuel A.M.E. Zion Church — 1.6 mi away
- Union Avenue United Methodist Church — 1.9 mi away
- Saint Paul Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 2.1 mi away