Canaan Baptist Church
Canaan Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 2203 Alaska Avenue in Dallas, TX 75216. It is one of 1,880 churches in Dallas, and one of 357 Baptist congregations in the city.
2203 Alaska Avenue, Dallas, TX, 75216Canaan Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 7,377 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Texas — 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.
Find Canaan Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Canaan Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 working-age adults live without health insurance. About a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of the people here live without health insurance. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 36.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 25.9% (18.4–33.5%)
- Obesity: 42.3%
- Child Poverty: 36.2% (16.9–55.8%)
- Poverty Rate: 27.1% (14.3–39.9%)
- Diabetes: 17.7%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Dallas city is served by 1,325 churches — about one congregation for every 1,008 residents.
Churches near Canaan Baptist Church
- Christ Trinity Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saintsville Church of God in Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Full Gospel Tabernacle Churches, Inc. — 0.1 mi away
- Bexar Street Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Marsalis Avenue Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Greater True Light Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Woodin Boulevard Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Bible Deliverance Holy Sanctified Church — 0.3 mi away
- Grace From Heaven Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Metropolitan Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Christ Trinity Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Bexar Street Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Greater True Light Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Grace From Heaven Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Metropolitan Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away