Israel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Israel African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church at 381 Hamilton Street in Albany, NY 12210. It is one of 146 churches in Albany, and one of 4 Methodist congregations in the city.
Our Mission is to minister to the social, spiritual, and physical development of all people.
Founded in 1828 in Albany, Israel is the oldest Black church in Upstate New York.
381 Hamilton Street, Albany, NY, 12210Service times
Sunday at 9:30 a.m; Wednesdays at 6 p.m; Sunday, June 11, at 9:30 a.m (as listed)
Phone: (518) 463-8779 · Website: https://israelame.com/
Israel African Methodist Episcopal Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 943 congregations of the Methodist family gather across New York — 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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Upcoming events at Israel African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Sun, Aug 9 · 9:30 AM: Sunday Worship Service — Israel AME Church - Sanctuary, 381 Hamilton St, Albany, NY , 12210, United States
From Israel African Methodist Episcopal Church's public calendar (https://israelame.com/). Times are the church's local time.
The community around Israel African Methodist Episcopal 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. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 7 the people here live below the poverty line. 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.
- Social Isolation: 36.1%
- Poverty Rate: 16.9% (9.6–24.1%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Albany city is served by 75 churches — about one congregation for every 1,329 residents.
Churches near Israel African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Faith In Motion — 0 mi away
- Holy Trinity National Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Chapel Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Wilborn Temple First Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Westminster Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Iglesia Pentecostal Sendas de Salvacion — 0.3 mi away
- Emmanuel Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Russian Church of Albany — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Albany United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
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- Emmaus United Methodist Church — 1.6 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 4.2 mi away in Delmar, NY
- McKownville United Methodist Church — 4.7 mi away