Poplar Street AME Zion Church

Poplar Street AME Zion Church is a African Methodist Episcopal Zion church in Philadelphia, PA 19144. It is one of 1,755 churches in Philadelphia, and one of 2 African Methodist Episcopal Zion congregations in the city.

Philadelphia, PA, 19144

Poplar Street AME Zion 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 Poplar Street AME Zion 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. About a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,400 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.

  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.0%
  • Poverty Rate: 30.7% (19.4–42.0%)
  • Diabetes: 19.5%
  • Unemployment: 12.4% (4.5–20.4%)
  • Obesity: 42.3%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 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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