Shekinah Glory African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
Shekinah Glory African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church is a African Methodist Episcopal Zion church at 758 Nahant Street in Spartanburg, SC 29301. It is one of 268 churches in Spartanburg, and one of 2 African Methodist Episcopal Zion congregations in the city.
758 Nahant Street, Spartanburg, SC, 29301Shekinah Glory African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 898 congregations of the Methodist family gather across South Carolina — 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 Shekinah Glory African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 6 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is two thousand 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.
- Child Poverty: 66.1%
- Obesity: 47.5%
- Food Insecurity: 44.8%
- Poverty Rate: 41.9% (31.1–52.8%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 31.3%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 24.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 22.1%
- Diabetes: 19.2%
- Social Isolation: 39.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.6%
- Unemployment: 10.3% (5.0–15.5%)
- Depression: 25.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.4% (9.4–19.3%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Shekinah Glory African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
- Victory Deliverance Temple of Praise — 0.1 mi away
- St Paul Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Freewill Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away in Una, SC
- Una Freewill Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away in Una, SC
- Faith Tabernacle Church of Spartanburg — 0.5 mi away
- Gospel Light Tabernacle — 0.5 mi away
- Northside Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away in Una, SC
- Rockin’ The Nations Ministries — 0.6 mi away
- Victory In Jesus Fellowship — 0.6 mi away
- Calvary Redemption Center — 0.7 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Stephen Grove AME Zion Church — 0.8 mi away in Una, SC
- Smith Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.4 mi away
- Arcadia United Methodist Church — 1.4 mi away in Arcadia, SC
- First African Methodist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Central United Methodist Church — 1.9 mi away
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