Seattle First Baptist Church
Seattle First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1111 Harvard Avenue in Seattle, WA 98122. It is one of 545 churches in Seattle, and one of 36 Baptist congregations in the city.
Founded in 1869, Seattle First Baptist Church has long been a justice-oriented and welcoming intergenerational community.
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1111 Harvard Avenue, Seattle, WA, 98122Service times
- Sunday 11am · Mornings
Website: https://www.seattlefirstbaptist.org/
Shares a ministry location with Bodhiheart Sangha Buddhist Meditation Center In Seattle.
Seattle First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 626 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Washington — 71,872 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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Latest from Seattle First Baptist Church's YouTube channel: The Tenth Sunday after Pentecost | August 2, 2026 (all videos).
The community around Seattle First Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 adults here carry depression. About 1 in 15 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, and nearly a quarter of the people here were born in another country. That is 2,800 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.
- Depression: 25.7%
- Unemployment: 7.2% (0.9–16.1%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Seattle city is served by 331 churches — about one congregation for every 2,218 residents.
Churches near Seattle First Baptist Church
- Bodhiheart Sangha Buddhist Meditation Center In Seattle — 0 mi away
- Chapel of Saint Ignatius — 0.2 mi away
- First Covenant Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saints Gallery at Capitol Hill Presbyterian — 0.3 mi away
- Saint James Cathedral — 0.4 mi away
- Central Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- First African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Calvary: The Hill Church — 0.4 mi away
- German United Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Medhane-Alem Evangelical Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Japanese Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Mount Zion Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Goodwill Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Cornerstone Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- King Street Southern Baptist Church — 1 mi away
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