Saint Mark African Methodist Episcopal Church
Saint Mark African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church at 801 Northwest Harrison Street in Topeka, KS 66608. It is one of 253 churches in Topeka, and one of 14 Methodist congregations in the city.
801 Northwest Harrison Street, Topeka, KS, 66608Saint Mark African Methodist Episcopal Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 349 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Kansas — 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 Saint Mark African Methodist Episcopal Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 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 about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.
- Obesity: 45.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.2%
- Food Insecurity: 27.5%
- Social Isolation: 33.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 20.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.7%
- Diabetes: 16.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.3% (9.4–23.2%)
- Depression: 25.5%
- Poverty Rate: 21.8% (13.6–29.9%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.3%
- Unemployment: 6.5% (1.6–11.6%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Topeka city is served by 131 churches — about one congregation for every 923 residents.
Churches near Saint Mark African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Second Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- North Topeka Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Open Way Full Gospel Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Olive Primitive Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Kansas Avenue United Methodist — 0.3 mi away
- Family of God Church — 0.4 mi away
- The Way Topeka — 0.4 mi away
- Imago Dei — 0.4 mi away
- Calvary Church of God In Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Calvary Church — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Kansas Avenue United Methodist — 0.3 mi away
- Kansas Avenue United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Topeka First United Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Saint John African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.2 mi away
- Oakland United Methodist Church — 1.6 mi away