East Washington Heights Baptist Church

East Washington Heights Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 2220 Branch Avenue Southeast in Washington, DC 20020. It is one of 862 churches in Washington, and one of 214 Baptist congregations in the city.

The East Washington Heights Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Washington, DC, striving to live out the Biblical command to love God, each other and the entire world.

2220 Branch Avenue Southeast, Washington, DC, 20020

Service times

  • Sunday 11am

Phone: (202) 582-4811 · Website: https://ewhbc.org/

East Washington Heights 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 — 71,419 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 East Washington Heights Baptist Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. About 1 in 15 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, 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 lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.

  • Social Isolation: 38.3%
  • Unemployment: 8.1% (0.9–15.3%)
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.1%
  • Food Insecurity: 18.4%
  • Housing Insecurity: 16.2%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.9%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

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

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