Gaines Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Gaines Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 1502 South Haskell Avenue in Dallas, TX 75223. It is one of 1,880 churches in Dallas, and one of 3 African Methodist Episcopal congregations in the city.
1502 South Haskell Avenue, Dallas, TX, 75223Gaines Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,579 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Texas — 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 Gaines Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 describe their own health as fair or poor. About a third of working-age adults live without health insurance, and nearly a quarter of the people here live without health insurance. That is 2,200 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 34.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 28.6% (19.6–37.6%)
- Diabetes: 18.9%
- Obesity: 43.4%
- Poverty Rate: 23.3% (14.4–32.1%)
- Unemployment: 8.5% (3.1–14.1%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Dallas city is served by 1,325 churches — about one congregation for every 1,008 residents.
Churches near Gaines Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Christ Greater Progressive Church — 0 mi away
- Abyssinia Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- St Mark Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Fair Park Bible Fellowship — 0.2 mi away
- Fair Park Church of God in Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Roe's Chapel Missionary Church — 0.3 mi away
- East Dallas Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Griggs Chapel Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Maranatha Church — 0.6 mi away
- Primera Iglesia Del Nazareno — 0.7 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- St. Luke Community United Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Jenkins Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.1 mi away
- Grace Methodist Church — 1.4 mi away
- Porter Christian Methodist Episcopal Temple — 1.7 mi away
- African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.7 mi away