New Allen African Methodist Episcopal Church
New Allen African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church in Memphis, TN 38106. It is one of 1,547 churches in Memphis, and one of 85 Methodist congregations in the city.
Memphis, TN, 38106New Allen African Methodist Episcopal 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 New Allen African Methodist Episcopal Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than 4 in 5 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand 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.
- Child Poverty: 95.4%
- Obesity: 54.5%
- Poverty Rate: 49.7% (35.7–63.8%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 46.5%
- Diabetes: 30.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 29.0% (15.8–42.2%)
- Unemployment: 17.5% (4.1–31.0%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 20.8%
- Depression: 24.8%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 7 census tracts near this church.
Memphis city is served by 1,033 churches — about one congregation for every 596 residents.
Churches near New Allen African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Unity Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- Free Spirit Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- White Stone Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Gethsemane Garden Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Jerusalem Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Calvary Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- True Believers Holiness Outreach Ministries — 0.3 mi away
- Parkway Christian Center — 0.3 mi away
- Branch of Christ Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mt. Zion Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- Warren United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- A Worship Experience Christian Center — 0.5 mi away
- Martin Memorial Temple Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- Harris Memorial Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.7 mi away