Wisconsin Avenue Baptist Church

Wisconsin Avenue Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 3920 Alton Place Northwest in Washington, DC 20016. It is one of 862 churches in Washington, and one of 214 Baptist congregations in the city.

Our vision is to be a church where people are encouraged to grow in faith and are empowered to fully love and serve God as well as their neighbors and enemies.

We are a small but growing church where honest and enduring friendships are made and valued.

3920 Alton Place Northwest, Washington, DC, 20016

Phone: (202) 537-0972 · Website: https://wisconsinavebaptist.org/

Shares a ministry location with Agape Baptist Church.

Wisconsin 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 Wisconsin 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. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, 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 families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.

  • Social Isolation: 32.2%

Source: CDC PLACES (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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