First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist congregation in Toronto, Ontario, affiliated with Canadian Baptists of Ontario and Quebec. It is both the first Baptist congregation in Toronto and the oldest black institution in the city.- Type: Church
- Description: it is both the first Baptist congregation in Toronto and the oldest black institution in the city, located in various sites since it’s founding; it has been at corner of Huron and D’Arcy Streets since 1955
- Also known as: “First Coloured Calvinistic Baptist Church”, “Queen Street Coloured Baptist Church”, and “University Avenue Baptist Church”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Yonge-Dundas and Art Gallery of Ontario.
Yonge-Dundas
Photo: Benson Kua, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Yonge-Dundas is the very heart of downtown Toronto—in more ways than one. After all, the major arterials of Yonge Street and Dundas St meet here, and the resulting intersection may be the city's busiest.
Art Gallery of Ontario
Museum
Photo: Owen Byrne, CC BY 2.0.
The Art Gallery of Ontario is an art museum in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Located on Dundas Street West in the Grange Park neighbourhood of downtown Toronto, the museum complex takes up 45,000 square metres of physical space, making it one of the largest art museums in North America and the second-largest art museum in Toronto, after the Royal Ontario Museum. Art Gallery of Ontario is situated 330 metres east of First Baptist Church.
CN Tower
Photo: Larry Koester, CC BY 2.0.
The CN Tower is a 553.3 m-high communications and observation tower in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Completed in 1976, it is located in downtown Toronto, built on the former Railway Lands. CN Tower is situated 1½ km southeast of First Baptist Church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chinatown and Kensington-Chinatown.
Chinatown
Neighborhood
Chinatown, Toronto is a Chinese ethnic enclave located in the city's downtown core of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is centred at the intersection of Spadina Avenue and Dundas Street West.
Kensington-Chinatown
Photo: dimitri, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kensington Market and Chinatown are neighbourhoods in the western side of downtown Toronto. Kensington Market is one of the most eclectic and unique locations in the entire city.
Alexandra Park
Neighborhood
Photo: SimonP, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Alexandra Park is a neighbourhood located in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Alexandra Park is bounded by Dundas Street West on the north, Spadina Avenue on the east, Queen Street West on the south, and Bathurst Street on the west.
First Baptist Church
- Categories: building, place of worship, and religion
- Location: Old Toronto, Toronto, Greater Toronto Area, Ontario, Canada, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
43.65463° or 43° 39′ 17″ northLongitude
-79.39641° or 79° 23′ 47″ westLevels
2Open location code
87M2MJ33+VCOpenStreetMap ID
way 122169599OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipOpenStreetMap feature
building=churchWikidata ID
Q85845928
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