Rising Sun Baptist Church

Rising Sun Baptist Church is a church in Washington, D.C., Mid-Atlantic which is located on South Dakota Avenue Northeast. Rising Sun Baptist Church is situated nearby to the neighborhood Langdon, as well as near the suburb Brookland.

Type: Church
Denomination: Baptist
Address: 3126 South Dakota Avenue Northeast, 20018

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Fort Lincoln and Mount Rainier Historic District.

Fort Lincoln

Park

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Fort Lincoln was one of seven temporary earthwork forts of the Civil War Defenses of Washington, DC built in the Northeast quadrant of the city at the beginning of the Civil War by the Union Army to protect the city from the Confederate Army.

Mount Rainier Historic District

Historic site

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The Mount Rainier Historic District is a national historic district located at Mount Rainier, Prince George's County, Maryland, which began as a streetcar suburb located northeast of Washington, D.C. The district was built on a gently rolling rural landscape from about 1900 to 1940. Mount Rainier Historic District is situated 1 mile northeast of Rising Sun Baptist Church.

United Brick Corporation Brick Company

Ruins

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The United Brick Corporation Brick Complex, also known as the New York Avenue Brickworks, is a historic industrial site. It is located on the 2800 block of New York Avenue, NE in Washington, D.C. on the grounds of the United States National Arboretum. United Brick Corporation Brick Company is situated 1 mile south of Rising Sun Baptist Church.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Langdon and Brookland.

Langdon

Neighborhood

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Langdon is a neighborhood located in Ward 5 of Northeast Washington, D.C. Historical surveys of D.C. recognize Langdon as a neighborhood dating back to at least 1903.

Brookland

Suburb

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Brookland, Petworth, and Takoma are three relatively quiet neighborhoods east of Rock Creek Park. Following the "White Flight" after desegregation and the 1968 riots, these neighborhoods were left underpopulated, overwhelmingly African-American, and much less wealthy than the Upper Northwest, just across Rock Creek Park.

Mount Rainier

Photo: Nonvirtual, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Mount Rainier is a city of 8,000 people in Prince George's County. A large area of Mount Rainier is considered a historic district by the National Register of Historic Places.

Rising Sun Baptist Church

Categories: building, place of worship, and religion
Location: Washington, D.C., Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

38.93078° or 38° 55′ 51″ north

Longitude

-76.97145° or 76° 58′ 17″ west

Elevation

151 feet (46 metres)

Open location code

87C5W2JH+8C

OpenStreetMap ID

way 297219910

OpenStreetMap feature

amenity=place_of_worship

OpenStreetMap feature

building=yes

OpenStreetMap attribute

denomination=baptist

GeoNames ID

7231723

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