Where is First Baptist Church located?

First Baptist Church is at 205 Edwards Street, New Haven, CT, 06511.

What time are services at First Baptist Church?

First Baptist Church meets Sunday at 10:30am. Times are the church's local time — confirm with the church before visiting.

What denomination is First Baptist Church?

First Baptist Church in New Haven, CT is a Baptist church. It is one of 14 Baptist congregations in New Haven.

First Baptist Church

First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 205 Edwards Street in New Haven, CT 06511. It is one of 187 churches in New Haven, and one of 14 Baptist congregations in the city.

We are a culturally diverse family joined together by faith in Jesus Christ. We demonstrate God’s love through mutual respect, vibrant worship, warm fellowship, and reaching out to serve our neighbors in Greater New Haven and the world.

We are a family of faith made up of members from a wide diversity of ethnic, cultural, and racial backgrounds.

Serving since 2023 · Services in Swahili

205 Edwards Street, New Haven, CT, 06511

Service times

Sunday 10:30am–11:45am

Phone: (203) 562-0069 · Website: http://www.firstbaptistnewhaven.org/

Shares a ministry location with New Haven Chinese Alliance Church.

First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 286 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Connecticut — 71,417 across the United States on The Church Map.

Baptists pressed harder than anyone for religious liberty in America, and the freedom every other congregation on this map enjoys is partly what they won. They have carried believers' baptism and the priesthood of every believer to more of the world than almost anyone — and the Black Baptist church has repeatedly been the conscience of the whole nation.

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The community around First Baptist Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. About 1 in 5 the people here live below the poverty line, and about 1 in 5 the people here were born in another country. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.

Social Isolation: 35.7%
Poverty Rate: 17.5% (10.4–24.6%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

New Haven city is served by 95 churches — about one congregation for every 1,428 residents.

Churches near First Baptist Church

New Haven Chinese Alliance Church — 0 mi away
Evangelical Covenant Church — 0.2 mi away
St Joseph's Church — 0.2 mi away
Saint Josephs Church — 0.2 mi away
Saint John's Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
New Haven Seventh-Day Adventist Church — 0.2 mi away
Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
Smbcnh — 0.2 mi away
St James Unity Holiness Church — 0.3 mi away
Bethesda Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away

More Baptist churches nearby

Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
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Mt. Bethel Missionary Baptist Church — 1 mi away
Community Baptist Church — 1 mi away

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