First African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
First African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church is a African Methodist Episcopal Zion church in Knoxville, TN 37915. It is one of 684 churches in Knoxville, and one of 3 African Methodist Episcopal Zion congregations in the city.
Knoxville, TN, 37915First African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,068 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Tennessee — 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 First African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 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 the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,200 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: 47.3% (32.1–62.6%)
- Obesity: 46.4%
- Poverty Rate: 38.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.5%
- Depression: 32.4%
- Diabetes: 20.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.9% (7.0–18.7%)
- Unemployment: 7.1% (0.9–13.6%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Knoxville city is served by 226 churches — about one congregation for every 868 residents.
Churches near First African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
- Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Greater Ebenezer Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- CRC Knox — 0.3 mi away
- Overcoming Believers Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Calvary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Central Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Refuge Praise Worship Center — 0.4 mi away
- Word of Faith Christian Center — 0.4 mi away
- Mount Olive Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- St John Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Lennon-Seney United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Church of God Sanctified — 0.9 mi away
- All Souls Church — 1 mi away
- Central United Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- Magnolia Avenue United Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away
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