Allen Temple Church
Allen Temple Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 4101 Helen Street in Detroit, MI 48207. It is one of 1,584 churches in Detroit, and one of 7 African Methodist Episcopal congregations in the city.
4101 Helen Street, Detroit, MI, 48207Allen Temple Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 846 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Michigan — 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.
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The community around Allen Temple Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 47.1%
- Food Insecurity: 41.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.7%
- Poverty Rate: 34.0% (21.1–46.8%)
- Housing Insecurity: 30.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 25.6%
- Diabetes: 22.8%
- Unemployment: 12.2% (4.6–19.8%)
- Social Isolation: 35.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 20.5%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Detroit city is served by 1,247 churches — about one congregation for every 510 residents.
Churches near Allen Temple Church
- Universal Liberty in Christ Temple — 0.1 mi away
- New Calvary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Renaissance Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Miles Fellowship Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Greater Mt Carmel Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Silver Star Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Genesis Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Divine Temple of Mental Science — 0.4 mi away
- Greater Saint Peter's AME Zion Church — 0.4 mi away
- Sonora Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Greater Saint Peter's AME Zion Church — 0.4 mi away
- St. Paul AME Church — 1.4 mi away
- Saunders Memorial and Allen Temple AME Church — 1.4 mi away
- Saunders Memorial AME Church — 1.4 mi away
- Coggins Memorial Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.5 mi away