Morris Brown A.M.E. Church
Morris Brown A.M.E. Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 1756 North 25th Street in Philadelphia, PA 19121. It is one of 1,755 churches in Philadelphia, and one of 10 African Methodist Episcopal congregations in the city.
To live and proclaim a gospel that liberates, uplifts, and transforms North Philly, spiritually, socially, and systemically.
1756 North 25th Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19121Morris Brown A.M.E. 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 Morris Brown A.M.E. Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 3 in 4 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of 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.
- Child Poverty: 74.8% (56.0–93.6%)
- Poverty Rate: 41.2% (25.5–56.9%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 39.4%
- Diabetes: 22.0%
- Unemployment: 17.0% (9.1–25.0%)
- Obesity: 43.5%
- Depression: 23.2%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Philadelphia city is served by 1,051 churches — about one congregation for every 1,515 residents.
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- Redeem Holy Church — 0.1 mi away
- Goodwill Friendly Community Church — 0.2 mi away
- Open Door Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Holy Ghost Crusade Church — 0.2 mi away
- The House of the Good Shepherd — 0.2 mi away
- Resurrection Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Jones Tabernacle A.M.E. — 0.5 mi away
- Trinity AME Church — 0.8 mi away
- Emmanuel United Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- Mt. Zion Methodist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Zoar United Methodist Church — 1.5 mi away
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