Calvary AME Church
Calvary AME Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church in Philadelphia, PA 19147. It is one of 1,755 churches in Philadelphia, and one of 10 African Methodist Episcopal congregations in the city.
Philadelphia, PA, 19147Calvary AME Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,331 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Pennsylvania — 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 Calvary AME Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, about 1 in 5 the people here live below the poverty line. About 1 in 7 the people here live without health insurance, and nearly a quarter of the people here were born in another country. That is 3,500 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Poverty Rate: 18.3% (10.4–26.2%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.3% (8.4–20.3%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau (2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Philadelphia city is served by 1,051 churches — about one congregation for every 1,515 residents.
Churches near Calvary AME Church
- Russell Tabernade CME — 0.2 mi away
- Iglesia Adventista del 7 Dia — 0.2 mi away
- Emmanuel Chapel — 0.2 mi away
- Mt Moriah Temple Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Sacred Heart of Jesus Church — 0.3 mi away
- St Casimir's Lithuanian Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Annunciation BVM Church — 0.3 mi away
- Prophetic Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Nicholas of Tolentine Church — 0.3 mi away
- Gilead Praise and Worship Center — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Phillip Temple Christian Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Waters Memorial AME Church — 0.9 mi away
- Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.9 mi away
- Tindley Temple United Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- St. Barnabas Bethsaida United Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away
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