Greater Mt. Olive African Methodist Episcopal Church
Greater Mt. Olive African Methodist Episcopal Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 439 N 50th St in Philadelphia, PA 19139-1725. It is one of 1,755 churches in Philadelphia, and one of 6 African Methodist Episcopal congregations in the city.
439 N 50th St, Philadelphia, PA, 19139-1725Phone: +12154731939 · Website: https://greatermountoliveamecphil.com/
Shares a ministry location with Reeve Memorial United Presbyterian.
Greater Mt. Olive African Methodist Episcopal Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,293 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Pennsylvania — 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 Mt. Olive African Methodist Episcopal Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 the people here live below the poverty line. About a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes. That is 2,500 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: 38.5% (25.6–51.4%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.3%
- Diabetes: 19.9%
- Obesity: 44.3%
- Unemployment: 10.0% (2.5–17.5%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.5% (6.9–20.0%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Greater Mt. Olive African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Reeve Memorial United Presbyterian — 0 mi away
- Second Timothy baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Killingsworth Temple — 0.1 mi away
- Philadelphia Church of God Inc. — 0.1 mi away
- Church of God Non-Sectarian — 0.1 mi away
- Church of God of Prophecy — 0.2 mi away
- The Church in the Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostles Doctrine Inc — 0.2 mi away
- Jehovah Jireh Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Redeemer Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Refuge Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Ward African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.6 mi away
- Camphor Memorial United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Mt. Pisgah AME Church — 0.8 mi away
- Calvary United Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Wharton Wesley United Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away
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