Canaan Baptist Church

Canaan Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1600 Newton Street Northwest in Washington, DC 20010. It is one of 862 churches in Washington, and one of 214 Baptist congregations in the city.

1600 Newton Street Northwest, Washington, DC, 20010

Phone: (712) 775-8968 · Website: https://www.canaanbapt.com/

Shares a ministry location with Church of the Advent, Washington, DC.

Canaan Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 231 congregations of the Baptist family gather across District of Columbia — 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 Canaan Baptist Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. Nearly a quarter of the people here were born in another country. That is 3,400 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: 36.4%

Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Washington city is served by 535 churches — about one congregation for every 1,253 residents.

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