Bethesda Baptist Church
Bethesda Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1808 Capitol Avenue Northeast in Washington, DC 20002. It is one of 862 churches in Washington, and one of 174 Baptist congregations in the city.
We further aim to witness for Christ in word and deed to the effect that others shall be won to the saving knowledge of Christ by our example.
As believers in Christ of the Baptist denomination, our objective is to worship God in Christ, fellowship together in Christian love, preach Christ, teach and practice Christianity as taught in the New Testament, and carry out the principles of God’s Word.
1808 Capitol Avenue Northeast, Washington, DC, 20002Service times
- Tuesday 7pm · Bible Study
Phone: +1-202-635-2883 · Website: https://www.bethesdaweb.org/
Bethesda Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 235 congregations of the Baptist family gather across District of Columbia — 71,872 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 Bethesda Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter have no one they feel they can count on. That is 2,300 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Social Isolation: 40.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.0%
- Poverty Rate: 21.9% (11.3–32.5%)
- Food Insecurity: 19.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 16.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.0%
- Unemployment: 7.5% (2.7–12.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Washington city is served by 535 churches — about one congregation for every 1,253 residents.
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- Trinity Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- United House Prayer For All — 0.2 mi away
- Beth Shalom African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.5 mi away
- Community United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- New Samaritan Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- World Changers Church- DC — 0.6 mi away
- About My Father's Business Outreach Ministry — 0.6 mi away
- Truth City — 0.7 mi away
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- Trinity Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Samaritan Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Israel Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Mount Olive Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Crusaders Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
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