Delaware Avenue Baptist Church
Delaware Avenue Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Washington, DC 20020. It is one of 862 churches in Washington, and one of 214 Baptist congregations in the city.
Our mission is to exist to give God all glory, honor, and power through personal and corporate worship.
Washington, DC, 20020Service times
Sunday service July 12, 2026Nightly Classes for all ages (toddlers to adults) with food and fellowship beginning at 6pm (as listed)
Shares a ministry location with St Teresa of Avila Catholic Church.
Delaware Avenue 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 Delaware Avenue 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 of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is two thousand 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: 42.3%
- Food Insecurity: 29.9%
- Unemployment: 12.1% (6.6–17.5%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.7%
- Poverty Rate: 25.2% (14.6–35.8%)
- Housing Insecurity: 24.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.4%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Washington city is served by 535 churches — about one congregation for every 1,253 residents.
Churches near Delaware Avenue Baptist Church
- St Teresa of Avila Catholic Church — 0 mi away
- New Covenant Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- John S Thomas Memorial Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Anacostia Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Agape 1 Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- St. Philip the Evangelist Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Theresas Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Union Temple Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Enduring Joy Ministries — 0.1 mi away
- EEC Ministries — 0.1 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- New Covenant Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- John S Thomas Memorial Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Union Temple Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Ambassador Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- THE COMMUNITY CHURCH — 0.3 mi away
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