List of African Methodist Episcopal Churches
Encyclopedia
This is a list of African Methodist Episcopal Church
es, all located exclusively in the United States
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African Methodist Episcopal Church
The African Methodist Episcopal Church, usually called the A.M.E. Church, is a predominantly African American Methodist denomination based in the United States. It was founded by the Rev. Richard Allen in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1816 from several black Methodist congregations in the...
es, all located exclusively in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
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By name group, then by state
- Allen
- Allen Temple AME Church, Oakland, California
- Allen Temple AME Church, Byron, GeorgiaByron, GeorgiaByron is a city in Peach County, Georgia, United States. A small portion of the city extends into Houston County. The population was 2,887 at the 2000 census...
- Allen Chapel AME Church Kalamazoo, MI
- Allen TempleAllen Temple AME Church (Cincinnati, Ohio)The Allen Temple AME Church in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, is the mother church of the Third Episcopal District of the African Methodist Episcopal Church...
, Cincinnati, OhioCincinnati, OhioCincinnati is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio. Cincinnati is the county seat of Hamilton County. Settled in 1788, the city is located to north of the Ohio River at the Ohio-Kentucky border, near Indiana. The population within city limits is 296,943 according to the 2010 census, making it Ohio's... - Allen AME Church, Providence, Rhode IslandProvidence, Rhode IslandProvidence is the capital and most populous city of Rhode Island and was one of the first cities established in the United States. Located in Providence County, it is the third largest city in the New England region...
- Greater Allen AME Church (Dayton, Ohio), Dayton, OhioDayton, OhioDayton is the 6th largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Montgomery County, the fifth most populous county in the state. The population was 141,527 at the 2010 census. The Dayton Metropolitan Statistical Area had a population of 841,502 in the 2010 census...
- Baber
- Baber AME Church, Carrier Mills, IllinoisCarrier Mills, IllinoisCarrier Mills, formerly Carriers Mills and Morrilsville, also known as Catskin, is a village in Saline County, Illinois, United States. The population was 1,886 at the 2000 census. Carrier Mills was named after George Washington Carrier and his saw and grist mill, and was one of the early Cairo...
- Baber AME Church, Carrier Mills, Illinois
- Bethel
- Big Bethel AME ChurchBig Bethel AME ChurchThe Big Bethel AME Church is the oldest African American congregation in the city of Atlanta, Georgia, and is the mother church of African Methodism in North Georgia...
, Atlanta, GeorgiaAtlanta, GeorgiaAtlanta is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia. According to the 2010 census, Atlanta's population is 420,003. Atlanta is the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, which is home to 5,268,860 people and is the ninth largest metropolitan area in... - Bethel African Methodist Church (Cedar Rapids, Iowa)Bethel African Methodist Church (Cedar Rapids, Iowa)The Bethel African Methodist Church in Cedar Rapids, Iowa is one of the few surviving links to Cedar Rapid's early African American community; this neighborhood has been nearly obliterated by development of Mercy Hospital. The church has been placed on Preservation Iowa’s Most Endangered list...
- Bethel AME Church (Davenport, Iowa)Bethel AME Church (Davenport, Iowa)Bethel A.M.E. Church is located at 325 W. 11th Street, Davenport, Iowa, United States. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.-History:...
- Bethel AME Church (Iowa City, Iowa)Bethel AME Church (Iowa City, Iowa)The Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Iowa City was built in 1868 to serve a predominantly African American congregation. Originally called Zion AME, Bethel is one of Iowa City's oldest frame houses and the oldest surviving structure associated with African Americans in Iowa City. The...
- Bethel AME Church, Hammond, IndianaHammond, IndianaHammond is a city in Lake County, Indiana, United States. It is part of the Chicago metropolitan area. The population was 80,830 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Hammond is located at ....
- Bethel AME Church, Baltimore, Maryland
- Bethel AME Zion Church, Aliquippa, PA
- Mother BethelMother Bethel A.M.E. ChurchThe Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church was founded in 1794 by Richard Allen, an African-American Methodist minister. The church has been located at the corner of Sixth and Lombard Streets in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, since that time, making it the oldest church property continuously...
, Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia, PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Philadelphia County, with which it is coterminous. The city is located in the Northeastern United States along the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. It is the fifth-most-populous city in the United States,... - Bethel AME Church, Providence, Rhode IslandProvidence, Rhode IslandProvidence is the capital and most populous city of Rhode Island and was one of the first cities established in the United States. Located in Providence County, it is the third largest city in the New England region...
- Bethel Temple, Fort Worth, TexasFort Worth, TexasFort Worth is the 16th-largest city in the United States of America and the fifth-largest city in the state of Texas. Located in North Central Texas, just southeast of the Texas Panhandle, the city is a cultural gateway into the American West and covers nearly in Tarrant, Parker, Denton, and...
- Bethel AME Church, St. Croix, United States Virgin Islands
- Brookins Community AME Church, Los Angeles, CaliforniaLos Angeles, CaliforniaLos Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...
- Christ Our Redeemer AME, Irvine, CaliforniaIrvine, CaliforniaIrvine is a suburban incorporated city in Orange County, California, United States. It is a planned city, mainly developed by the Irvine Company since the 1960s. Formally incorporated on December 28, 1971, the city has a population of 212,375 as of the 2010 census. However, the California...
- Big Bethel AME Church
- Emmanuel
- Emanuel AME ChurchEmanuel AME Church (Mobile, Alabama)Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church is a historic African American church in Mobile, Alabama. Emanuel AME began when church trustees purchased a vacant lot for their church in 1869, as African Americans in Mobile established their own congregations following the American Civil War. The...
, Mobile, AlabamaMobile, AlabamaMobile is the third most populous city in the Southern US state of Alabama and is the county seat of Mobile County. It is located on the Mobile River and the central Gulf Coast of the United States. The population within the city limits was 195,111 during the 2010 census. It is the largest...
- Emanuel AME Church
- Jericho
- Jericho AME Church Beaufort, South Carolina
- Mt. Zion
- Mount Zion AME Church, Newport, Rhode IslandNewport, Rhode IslandNewport is a city on Aquidneck Island in Newport County, Rhode Island, United States, about south of Providence. Known as a New England summer resort and for the famous Newport Mansions, it is the home of Salve Regina University and Naval Station Newport which houses the United States Naval War...
- Mt. Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church (Round O, South Carolina), Round O, South CarolinaRound O, South CarolinaRound O is an unincorporated community in Colleton County, South Carolina, United States. Its elevation is 36 feet , its zip code is 29474 and it is located at . It has two churches within the community Canaan Baptist Church, and Mount Sinai Baptist, and also has a small US Post Office....
- Mount Zion AME Church, Newport, Rhode Island
- Mt. Olive
- Mount Olive African Methodist Episcopal ChurchMount Olive African Methodist Episcopal ChurchThe Mount Olive African Methodist Episcopal Church is a historic church in Clearwater, Florida, USA. It is located at 600 Jones Street. On February 3, 2000, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.-References and external links:* at * at...
, Clearwater, FloridaClearwater, FloridaClearwater is a city located in Pinellas County, Florida, US, nearly due west of Tampa and northwest of St. Petersburg. In the west of Clearwater lies the Gulf of Mexico and in the east lies Tampa Bay. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 108,787. It is the county seat of... - Mount Olive African Methodist Episcopal ChurchMount Olive African Methodist Episcopal ChurchThe Mount Olive African Methodist Episcopal Church is a historic church in Clearwater, Florida, USA. It is located at 600 Jones Street. On February 3, 2000, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.-References and external links:* at * at...
, Ft. Myers, Florida
- Mount Olive African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Quinn
- Quinn Chapel AME Church (Chicago, Illinois)Quinn Chapel AME Church (Chicago, Illinois)Quinn Chapel AME Church, also known as Quinn Chapel of the A.M.E. Church, houses Chicago's oldest African-American congregation, formed by seven individuals as a nondenominational prayer group that met in the house of a member in 1844. In 1847, the group organized as a congregation of the African...
- Quinn Chapel, Louisville, KentuckyLouisville, KentuckyLouisville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kentucky, and the county seat of Jefferson County. Since 2003, the city's borders have been coterminous with those of the county because of a city-county merger. The city's population at the 2010 census was 741,096...
- Quinn Chapel AME Church (St. Louis, Missouri)Quinn Chapel AME Church (St. Louis, Missouri)Quinn Chapel AME Church is an historic African Methodist Episcopal Church building located at 227 Bowen Street in the Carondelet section of St. Louis, Missouri, in the United States. Built in 1869 as the North Public Market, it was acquired by the church in 1880.On October 16, 1974, it was added to...
- Quinn Chapel AME Church (Chicago, Illinois)
- Saint Philip
- Saint Philip AME ChurchSaint Philip AME ChurchSaint Philip AME Church in Atlanta, Georgia is the largest congregation in the Sixth Episcopal district of the African Methodist Episcopal Church with over 9,000 members.-History:...
, Atlanta, GeorgiaAtlanta, GeorgiaAtlanta is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia. According to the 2010 census, Atlanta's population is 420,003. Atlanta is the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, which is home to 5,268,860 people and is the ninth largest metropolitan area in...
- Saint Philip AME Church
- St. John
- St. John AME Church, Columbus, GeorgiaColumbus, GeorgiaColumbus is a city in and the county seat of Muscogee County, Georgia, United States, with which it is consolidated. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 189,885. It is the principal city of the Columbus, Georgia metropolitan area, which, in 2009, had an estimated population of 292,795...
- St. John's African Methodist Episcopal ChurchSt. John's African Methodist Episcopal ChurchSt. John African Methodist Episcopal Church was the first church for African Americans in Nebraska, organized in North Omaha in 1867. It is located at 2402 North 22nd Street in the Near North Side neighborhood. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The building was...
, North Omaha, NebraskaNorth Omaha, NebraskaNorth Omaha is a community area in Omaha, Nebraska, USA. It is bordered by Cuming and Dodge Streets on the south, Interstate 680 on the north, North 72nd Street on the west and the Missouri River and Carter Lake, Iowa on the east, as defined by the University of Nebraska at Omaha and the Omaha... - St. John A.M.E. Church, Norfolk, VirginiaNorfolk, VirginiaNorfolk is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. With a population of 242,803 as of the 2010 Census, it is Virginia's second-largest city behind neighboring Virginia Beach....
- St. John AME Church, Columbus, Georgia
- St. James
- Saint James A.M.E., Picayune, MississippiPicayune, MississippiPicayune is the largest city in Pearl River County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 10,878 at the 2010 census. Located approximately from New Orleans, Hattiesburg, and Gulfport/Biloxi...
- Saint James A.M.E., Picayune, Mississippi
- St. Paul
- St. Paul AME Church, Cambridge, MassachusettsCambridge, MassachusettsCambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Greater Boston area. It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England, an important center of the Puritan theology embraced by the town's founders. Cambridge is home to two of the world's most prominent...
- St. Paul AME Church, Port Huron, MichiganPort Huron, MichiganPort Huron is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of St. Clair County. The population was 30,184 at the 2010 census. The city is adjacent to Port Huron Township but is administratively autonomous. It is joined by the Blue Water Bridge over the St. Clair River to Sarnia,...
- St. Paul AME Church, Fairfield, OhioFairfield, OhioFairfield is a city in Butler County in the U.S. state of Ohio, near Cincinnati. Fairfield was incorporated in 1955. The population was 42,510 at the 2010 census. The city school district is one of the largest in Ohio, with Fairfield High School graduating 842 students in June 2009. Fairfield is...
- St. Paul AME Church, Rockwall, TexasRockwall, TexasRockwall is a city in Rockwall County, Texas, United States, and a suburb of Dallas. It is part of the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. The population was 37,490 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Rockwall County. Rockwall County is the second wealthiest county in the state of Texas in terms...
- St. Paul AME Church, Dallas, TexasDallas, TexasDallas is the third-largest city in Texas and the ninth-largest in the United States. The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is the largest metropolitan area in the South and fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States...
- St. Paul AME Church, Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Salter's
- Salter's Chapel AME Church (St. Helena Parish, Louisiana), St. Helena Parish, LouisianaSt. Helena Parish, LouisianaSt. Helena Parish is a parish in the U.S. state of Louisiana. Its seat is Greensburg. As of 2000, its population was 10,525.St. Helena Parish is part of the Baton Rouge Metropolitan Statistical Area as well as the Baton Rouge–Pierre Part Combined Statistical Area.-History:For the past...
- Salter's Chapel AME Church (St. Helena Parish, Louisiana), St. Helena Parish, Louisiana
- Turner
- Turner Chapel AME Church, Marietta, GeorgiaMarietta, GeorgiaMarietta is a city located in central Cobb County, Georgia, United States, and is its county seat.As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 56,579, making it one of metro Atlanta's largest suburbs...
- Turner Chapel AME Church, Marietta, Georgia
- Ward
- Ward Chapel AME Church (Prattville, Alabama)
- Ward Chapel AME Church, Selma, Alabama