Greater Mount Zion AME Church
Greater Mount Zion AME Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 42 Pennington Avenue in Trenton, NJ 08618. It is one of 243 churches in Trenton, and one of 2 African Methodist Episcopal congregations in the city.
42 Pennington Avenue, Trenton, NJ, 08618Greater Mount Zion AME Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 500 congregations of the Methodist family gather across New Jersey — 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 Greater Mount Zion AME Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. Nearly a quarter of adults are worried about keeping the housing they have, and about 1 in 5 households fear the power or water being shut off. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the tables that run short before the month does, and for this church's table to be long.
- Food Insecurity: 32.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 28.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.0%
- Social Isolation: 38.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.6%
- Diabetes: 15.1%
- Unemployment: 11.7% (5.1–18.3%)
- Poverty Rate: 16.1% (5.7–26.6%)
- Transportation Barriers: 15.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.7%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Trenton city is served by 155 churches — about one congregation for every 581 residents.
Churches near Greater Mount Zion AME Church
- St. Paul AME Zion Church — 0.1 mi away
- Iglesia Evangelica Puerta de Sion — 0.1 mi away
- Galilee Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Mt. Ararat Original Primitive Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Mason Memorial Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Samaritan Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Greater Life Christian Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- First Antioch Church — 0.2 mi away
- Spotlight Holy Temple — 0.2 mi away
- Wayne Avenue Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- St. Paul AME Zion Church — 0.1 mi away
- Turning Point United Methodist — 0.5 mi away
- Grant Chapel AME Church — 0.9 mi away
- Cadwalader-Asbury United Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away
- African United Methodist Church — 1.6 mi away
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