former Orchard Street Church
former Orchard Street Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 520 Orchard Street in Baltimore, MD 21201. It is one of 1,253 churches in Baltimore, and one of 4 African Methodist Episcopal congregations in the city.
520 Orchard Street, Baltimore, MD, 21201Website: http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NRHP/Text/75002096.pdf
former Orchard Street Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 964 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Maryland — 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.
Find former Orchard Street Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around former Orchard Street 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 adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.
- Obesity: 46.6%
- Social Isolation: 42.3%
- Food Insecurity: 41.3%
- Poverty Rate: 36.6% (24.5–48.7%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 32.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 25.4%
- Diabetes: 19.9%
- Unemployment: 12.5% (5.4–19.6%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 21.0%
- Depression: 25.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Baltimore city is served by 721 churches — about one congregation for every 810 residents.
Churches near former Orchard Street Church
- Canaan Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Triumph Community Church — 0.1 mi away
- Metropolitan Community Church — 0.1 mi away
- Carter Memorial COGIC — 0.2 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Calvary Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Israelite Church of God In Jesus Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Sow into Purposed Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- First & Franklin Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Grace and St. Peter's Church — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Pennsylvania Avenue African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.3 mi away
- Sharp Street Memorial United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mount Vernon Place United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Pauls United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
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