# Black Methodism in the United States

Black Methodism in the United States is the Methodist tradition within the Black Church, largely consisting of congregations in the African Methodist Episcopal (AME), African Methodist Episcopal Zion (AME Zion or AMEZ), Christian Methodist Episcopal denominations, as well as those African American congregations in other Methodist denominations, such as the Free Methodist Church.
African Americans were drawn to Methodism due to the father of Methodism, John Wesley's "opposition to the whole system of slavery, his commitment to Jesus Christ, and the evangelical appeal to the suffering and the oppressed."

## History
### Historically black Methodist denominations
#### AMEZ

The African Methodist Episcopal Zion church evolved as a division within the Methodist Episcopal Church denomination. The first AME Zion church was founded in 1800. Like the AME Church, the AME Zion Church sent missionaries to Africa in the first decade after the American Civil War and it also has a continuing overseas presence.

#### AME

The African Methodist Episcopal Church was founded by Richard Allen in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1816, and also split from the white-dominated Methodist Episcopal Church denomination to make an independent denomination. Sarah Allen was known as its "founding mother". It is based in the United States but seven of its 20 districts are overseas, including in Liberia, the United Kingdom, Angola, and South Africa. Its Women's Missionary Service, an NGO, operates in 32 countries.

#### CME
### Other Methodist denominations
#### Free Methodist Church

In the Free Methodist Church, African Heritage Network convenes to encourage black congregations and clergy within the denomination.

## Intercommunion

Both the AME and the AMEZ churches have entered in full communion with one another and with the United Methodist Church, the African Union Methodist Protestant Church, the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, and the Union American Methodist Episcopal Church.

## List of notable congregations
### United States

| Church/Temple | City | State |
| Adams Chapel AME Church | Rock Hill | South Carolina |
| Allen Temple AME Church | Oakland | California |
| Allen Temple AME Church | Atlanta | Georgia |
| Allen Temple AME Church | Byron | Georgia |
| Allen Chapel AME Church | Lincoln | Illinois |
| Allen Chapel AME Church | Terre Haute | Indiana |
| Allen Chapel AME Church | Silver Spring | Maryland |
| Allen Chapel AME Church | Kalamazoo | Michigan |
| Greater Allen AME Cathedral | Queens | New York |
| Allen Temple AME Church | Cincinnati | Ohio |
| Allen AME Church | Portland | Oregon |
| Greater Allen AME Church | Dayton | Ohio |
| Allen AME Church | Providence | Rhode Island |
| Allen Temple AME Church | Greenville | South Carolina |
| Allen Chapel AME Church | Murfreesboro | Tennessee |
| Allen Chapel AME Church | Fort Worth | Texas |
| Allen Chapel AME Church | Washington | DC |
| Asbury AME Church | Chester | Pennsylvania |
| Asbury Chapel AME Church | Louisville | Kentucky |
| Baber AME Church | Carrier Mills | Illinois |
| Baber AME Church | Rochester | New York |
| Big Bethel AME Church | Atlanta | Georgia |
| Bethel AME Church | Batesville | Arkansas |
| Bethel AME Church | Malvern | Arkansas |
| Bethel AME Church | Oxnard | California |
| Bethel AME Church | DeLand | Florida |
| Greater Bethel AME Church | Miami | Florida |
| Bethel AME Church | Acworth | Georgia |
| Bethel AME Church | Cedar Rapids | Iowa |
| Bethel AME Church | Davenport | Iowa |
| Bethel AME Church | Iowa City | Iowa |
| Bethel AME Church | Champaign | Illinois |
| Bethel AME Church | Crawfordsville | Indiana |
| Bethel AME Church | Hammond | Indiana |
| Bethel AME Church | Indianapolis | Indiana |
| Bethel AME Church | Richmond | Indiana |
| Bethel AME Church | Coffeyville | Kansas |
| Bethel AME Church | Manhattan | Kansas |
| Bethel AME Church | Shelbyville | Kentucky |
| Union Bethel AME Church | New Orleans | Louisiana |
| Bethel AME Church | Baltimore | Maryland |
| Bethel AME Church | Jamaica Plain | Massachusetts |
| Bethel AME Church and Parsonage | Plymouth | Massachusetts |
| Bethel AME Church | Vicksburg | Mississippi |
| Bethel Chapel AME Church | Louisiana | Missouri |
| Union Bethel AME Church | Great Falls | Montana |
| Bethel AME Church | Reno | Nevada |
| Bethel AME Church | Morristown | New Jersey |
| Bethel AME Church | Springtown | New Jersey |
| Greater Bethel AME Church | Harlem | New York |
| Bethel AME Church and Manse | Huntington | New York |
| Bethel AME Church | Reidsville | North Carolina |
| Bethel AME Church | Greensboro | North Carolina |
| Bethel AME Church | Middletown | Ohio |
| Bethel AME Zion Church | Aliquippa | Pennsylvania |
| Bethel AME Church | Monongahela City | Pennsylvania |
| Bethel AME Church | Reading | Pennsylvania |
| Bethel AME Church | Anderson | South Carolina |
| Bethel AME Church | Columbia | South Carolina |
| Bethel AME Church | McClellanville | South Carolina |
| Bethel AME Church | Brittons Neck | South Carolina |
| Mother Bethel AME Church | Philadelphia | Pennsylvania |
| Bethel AME Church | Providence | Rhode Island |
| Bethel Temple | Fort Worth | Texas |
| Bethel AME Church | San Antonio | Texas |
| Third Street Bethel AME Church | Richmond | Virginia |
| Bethel AME Church | Saint Croix | US Virgin Islands |
| Bethel AME Church | Parkersburg | West Virginia |
| Brown Chapel AME Church | Selma | Alabama |
| Brown Chapel AME Church | Pittsburgh | Pennsylvania |
| Brown Chapel AME Church | Houston | Texas |
| Bryant Chapel AME Church | Birmingham | Alabama |
| Brookins Community AME Church | Los Angeles | California |
| Byrd's AME Church | Clayton | Delaware |
| Campbell Chapel AME Church | Americus | Georgia |
| Campbell Chapel AME Church | Atchison | Kansas |
| Campbell Chapel AME Church | Glasgow | Missouri |
| Campbell Chapel AME Church | Pulaski | Tennessee |
| Campbell AME Church | Philadelphia | Pennsylvania |
| Christ Our Redeemer AME Church | Irvine | California |
| Ebenezer AME Church | Baltimore | Maryland |
| Emanuel AME Church | Charleston | South Carolina |
| Emanuel AME Church | Mobile | Alabama |
| Emmanuel AME Church | Durham | North Carolina |
| Empowerment Temple AME Church | Baltimore | Maryland |
| Grant AME Church | Chesilhurst | New Jersey |
| Grant AME Church | Roxbury | Massachusetts |
| Grant AME Church | Los Angeles | California |
| Jericho AME Church | Beaufort | South Carolina |
| Johnson's Chapel AME Church | Springfield | Kentucky |
| Joshua Chapel AME Church | Waxahachie | Texas |
| Mary Springhill A.M.E. Church | Shreveport | Shreveport |
| Mount Olive AME Church | Clearwater | Florida |
| Mount Olive AME Church | Ft. Myers | Florida |
| Mt. Pisgah AME Church | Greenwood | South Carolina |
| Mount Tabor AME Church | Kendrick | Florida |
| Mount Vernon AME Church | Gamaliel | Kentucky |
| Mount Vernon AME Church | Palestine | Texas |
| Mount Zion AME Zion Church | Montgomery | Alabama |
| Mount Zion AME Church | Jacksonville | Florida |
| Mount Zion AME Church | Ocala | Florida |
| Mount Zion AME Church | Montgomery Township | New Jersey |
| Mount Zion AME Church | Woolwich Township | New Jersey |
| Mount Zion AME Church | Tredyffrin Township | Pennsylvania |
| Mount Zion AME Church | Newport | Rhode Island |
| Mount Zion AME Church | Greeleyville | South Carolina |
| Mount Zion AME Church | Round O | South Carolina |
| Mount Zion AME Church | Norfolk | Virginia |
| Olive Chapel AME Church | Kirkwood | Missouri |
| Quinn Chapel AME Church | Chicago | Illinois |
| Quinn Chapel AME Church | Louisville | Kentucky |
| Quinn Chapel AME Church | St. Louis | Missouri |
| Reid Temple AME Church | Glenn Dale | Maryland |
| Rue Chapel AME Church | New Bern | North Carolina |
| Saint Philip AME Church | Atlanta | Georgia |
| Saint Phillips AME Church | Toomsboro | Georgia |
| St. John AME Church | Columbus | Georgia |
| St. John AME Church | Chicago | Illinois |
| St. John's AME Church | North Omaha | Nebraska |
| St. John AME Church | Cleveland | Ohio |
| St. John's AME Church | Norfolk | Virginia |
| St. James AME Church | Sanford | Florida |
| St. James AME Church | Ashland | Kentucky |
| St. James AME Church | Danville | Kentucky |
| Saint James AME Church | Picayune | Mississippi |
| St. James AME Church | Macon | Georgia |
| St. James AME Church | New Orleans | Louisiana |
| St. James AME Church (destroyed by arson in 1955) | Lake City | South Carolina |
| St. James' AME Church | Newark | New Jersey |
| St. James AME Zion Church | Ithaca | New York |
| St. Joseph's AME Church | Durham | North Carolina |
| St. Mark AME Church | Tuscaloosa | Alabama |
| St. Matthew's Chapel AME Church | Boonville | Missouri |
| St. Matthew AME Church | Philadelphia | Pennsylvania |
| St. Peter's AME Church | Harrodsburg | Kentucky |
| St. Peter's AME Zion Church | New Bern | North Carolina |
| St. Peter AME Church | Clarksville | Tennessee |
| St. Paul AME Church | Santa Barbara | California |
| St. Paul AME Church | Jacksonville | Florida |
| St. Paul AME Church | West Palm Beach | Florida |
| St. Paul AME Church | Glencoe | Illinois |
| St. Paul AME Church | Cambridge | Massachusetts |
| St. Paul AME Church | Port Huron | Michigan |
| St. Paul AME Church | Columbia | Missouri |
| St. Paul AME Church | St. Louis | Missouri |
| St. Paul AME Church | Raleigh | North Carolina |
| St. Paul AME Church | Fairfield | Ohio |
| St. Paul AME Church | Lima | Ohio |
| St. Paul's AME Church | Urbana | Ohio |
| St. Paul AME Church | Fayetteville | Tennessee |
| St. Paul AME Church | Rockwall | Texas |
| St. Paul AME Church | Dallas | Texas |
| Greater St. Paul AME Church | San Angelo | Texas |
| St. Paul AME Church | Manchester | Kentucky |
| St. Stephen's AME Church | Sandusky | Ohio |
| St. Stephen's AME Church | Hardeeville | South Carolina |
| Salter's Chapel AME Church | St. Helena Parish | Louisiana |
| Tabernacle AME Church | Idlewild | Michigan |
| Thomas Memorial AME Zion Church | Watertown | New York |
| Thomas Chapel AME Zion Church | Black Mountain | North Carolina |
| Turner Chapel AME Church | Atlanta | Georgia |
| Turner Chapel AME Church | Marietta | Georgia |
| Turner Memorial AME Church | Hyattsville | Maryland |
| Wade Chapel AME Church | Hillsboro | Texas |
| Ward Chapel AME Church | Prattville | Alabama |
| Ward Chapel AME Church | Selma | Alabama |
| Ward Chapel AME Church | Muskogee | Oklahoma |
| Wayman Temple AME Church | Jacksonville | Florida |
| Wesley Chapel AME Church | Georgetown | Texas |
| Wesley Chapel AME Church | Houston | Texas |
| Wesley Chapel AME Church | San Marcos | Texas |
| Williams Chapel AME Church | Orangeburg | South Carolina |
| Woodlawn AME Church | Chicago | Illinois |
| Zion AME Church | Camden | Delaware |

### Liberia

* Eliza Turner AME Church, 34 Camp Johnson Road, Monrovia, founded in 1896
* Empowerment Temple AME Church, Carey Street, Monrovia
* Morning Star AME, Kingsville #7 Township, Careysburg District, Montserrado County.