[1] The Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church is located in Hartford north side Clay-Arsenal neighborhood, on the west side of Main Street just north of Mahl Avenue.

A large gable faces the street, with a pair of entrances at opposite ends of the facade.

Windows have Gothic pointed arches, and are set in varying groups and sizes on the facade, with pale stone headers.

The Metropolitan AME congregation was first located on Elm Street, in a building later taken by the city as part of Bushnell Park.

It then built a new church on Pearl Street, which was replaced by a larger one on the same site in 1898, which it occupied until acquiring this property.