Asbury Temple United Methodist Church

Asbury Temple United Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 201 South Alston Avenue in Durham, NC 27701. It is one of 446 churches in Durham, and one of 16 Methodist congregations in the city.

201 South Alston Avenue, Durham, NC, 27701

Shares a ministry location with New Creation United Methodist Church.

Asbury Temple United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,294 congregations of the Methodist family gather across North Carolina — 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.

Find Asbury Temple United Methodist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.

The community around Asbury Temple United Methodist 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: 48.2%
  • Food Insecurity: 36.8%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.6%
  • Housing Insecurity: 27.5%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 21.0% (12.5–29.6%)
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.1%
  • Social Isolation: 36.8%
  • Poverty Rate: 27.8% (16.6–38.9%)
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 20.1%
  • Transportation Barriers: 18.9%
  • Diabetes: 17.4%
  • Unemployment: 9.4% (3.7–15.0%)
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.5%
  • Depression: 23.8%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Durham city is served by 183 churches — about one congregation for every 1,296 residents.

Churches near Asbury Temple United Methodist Church

More Methodist churches nearby

See all churches in Durham, NC · All churches in North Carolina