Zion Ame Church
Zion Ame Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 1600 S 21st St in Philadelphia, PA 19145-1336. It is one of 1,755 churches in Philadelphia, and one of 6 African Methodist Episcopal congregations in the city.
We see the Lord God moving in our midst, helping us to become whole spiritually, emotionally, and physically as a church family.
Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church has been a cornerstone of South Philadelphia for nearly two centuries.
Wheelchair accessible
1600 S 21st St, Philadelphia, PA, 19145-1336Service times
- Sunday 10am · Morning WorshipOur Morning Worship Service begins
Phone: (215) 468-6489 · Website: https://www.zionamephila.org/
Zion 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.
Ministries at Zion Ame Church
- Hostess Ministry
- Community Ministry
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The community around Zion Ame 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. About 1 in 7 the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,300 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.
- Poverty Rate: 16.5% (6.8–26.2%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau (2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Zion Ame Church
- Tasker Street Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Unity Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Birth Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Pentecostal United Holy Church — 0.2 mi away
- True Gospel Tabernacle Family Church — 0.2 mi away
- Greater Bethlehem Temple Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Simon the Cyrenian Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Bethany Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Second Nazareth Missionary Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Hope Church of Deliverance — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- St. Barnabas Bethsaida United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Colored Wesley Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Tindley Temple United Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- Wesley AMEZ Church — 1.1 mi away
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