Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church

The Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church is a historic Methodist Episcopal Church at 2051 Main Street in , . This High Victorian Gothic structure was built in 1873-74 for an Episcopal congregation, and has since 1926 been the home to the city's oldest African-American congregation, which was established in 1833.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Windsor Avenue Congregational Church and Union Baptist Church.

Church
Faith Congregational Church is a historic church at 2030 Main Street in . The brick Romanesque Revival-style church building, completed in 1872, now houses Faith Congregational Church, whose lineage includes the city's oldest African-American congregation, established in 1819.

Church
The is a historic church at 1913 and 1921 Main Street in , . Originally built by an Episcopal congregation, it has for many years been home to an African-American Baptist congregation, which under the leadership of Rev. is situated 630 feet south of Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church.

Cemetery
is a cemetery on Main Street in the Clay-Arsenal neighborhood of . Established in 1845, it is one of the city's oldest cemeteries, and its first private non-sectarian cemetery. is situated 970 feet west of Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Widows’ Home and Capen-Clark Historic District.

Locality
The Widows' Home is a historic social service facility at 1846-1860 North Main Street in . Built in 1864–65, its buildings are among the oldest in the city's North End, and a rare surviving example of a mid-19th-century facility for indigent women.

Neighborhood
The encompasses a residential neighborhood area in the North End of . Centered on Capen Street between Main and Enfield Streets, it contains a cross-section of post-Civil War Victorian vernacular housing styles, and shows in its development patterns the ebb and flow of the city's economy between about 1865 and 1910.

Neighborhood
Photo: Mexognosis, Public domain.
The in is a 60-acre historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983, and expanded in 1984.

Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church

Latitude
41.7827° or 41° 46′ 58″ north
Longitude
-72.67631° or 72° 40′ 35″ west
Elevation
79 feet (24 metres)
Inception
1873
Open location code
87H9Q8MF+3F
Open­Street­Map ID
way 913724630
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­place_of_worship
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­church
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­yes
Geo­Names ID
4838570
Wiki­data ID
Q6824968
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