Edgewood Chapel A.M.E. Zion Church
Edgewood Chapel A.M.E. Zion Church is a Baptist church at 2440 Martin Luther King Jr Ave in Knoxville, TN 37915-1633. It is one of 568 churches in Knoxville, and one of 123 Baptist congregations in the city.
The mission of the Connectional Lay Council of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church is to prepare and equip laity for life discipleship in the Kingdom of God by maintaining effective ministries that evangelize, encourage and edify the laity.
2440 Martin Luther King Jr Ave, Knoxville, TN, 37915-1633Phone: (865) 522-2391 · Website: https://amezion.org/person/bishopleake/
Edgewood Chapel A.M.E. Zion Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 3,871 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Tennessee — 71,350 across the United States on The Church Map.
Baptists pressed harder than anyone for religious liberty in America, and the freedom every other congregation on this map enjoys is partly what they won. They have carried believers' baptism and the priesthood of every believer to more of the world than almost anyone — and the Black Baptist church has repeatedly been the conscience of the whole nation.
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The community around Edgewood Chapel A.M.E. Zion Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,200 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.
- Obesity: 47.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.7%
- Poverty Rate: 32.0% (22.6–41.5%)
- Diabetes: 22.1%
- Depression: 29.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.2%
- Child Poverty: 29.5% (16.8–42.5%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.4% (7.8–21.0%)
- Unemployment: 7.9% (1.0–14.8%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Edgewood Chapel A.M.E. Zion Church
- Bethel AME Church — 0.1 mi away
- St Paul Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Luke's Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Knoxville Baptist Tabernacle Church — 0.3 mi away
- Overcoming Believers — 0.3 mi away
- Fifth Avenue Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Word of Faith Christian Center — 0.3 mi away
- Church of God Sanctified — 0.3 mi away
- New Salem Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Greenway Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- St Paul Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Knoxville Baptist Tabernacle Church — 0.3 mi away
- Fifth Avenue Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Salem Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Greenway Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
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