Mother African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
Mother African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church is a African Methodist Episcopal Zion church at 140 West 137th Street in New York, NY 10030. It is one of 3,431 churches in New York, and one of 6 African Methodist Episcopal Zion congregations in the city.
We strive not only to serve our community, but to continue our legacy of black excellence, political empowerment, and spiritual enlightenment.
Mother African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church has a long, proud history of serving the community of Harlem.
140 West 137th Street, New York, NY, 10030Website: https://www.famecbharlem.org/
Mother African Methodist Episcopal Zion 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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Latest from Mother A.M.E. Zion Church's YouTube channel: August 2, 2026, Sunday Morning Worship. Rev. Dr. Malcolm J. Byrd, Senior Pastor (all videos).
The community around Mother African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 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 nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 7,500 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: 43.3%
- Food Insecurity: 29.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 25.0%
- Poverty Rate: 25.0% (17.6–32.3%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.2%
- Unemployment: 8.6% (3.4–13.7%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.5%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
New York city is served by 2,102 churches — about one congregation for every 4,102 residents.
Churches near Mother African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
- Abyssinian Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Way of The Cross Church — 0.1 mi away
- Community Of Sant Egidio — 0.1 mi away
- Christian Science Church — 0.1 mi away
- The Church of the Remnant Women's Ministry God's Daughter — 0.1 mi away
- New Song Church Affirming Christian Ministry — 0.1 mi away
- Word Of Life — 0.1 mi away
- Beulah Wesleyan Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Union Congregational Church — 0.1 mi away
- Rendall Memorial Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Beulah Wesleyan Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- A.M.E. Metropolitan Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Mark's Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Salem United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Metropolitan Community Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away