My husband and I are planning a trip to London in fall of 2004 and would like to attend church on the Sunday we will be there. We are Baptist and do not recall seeing any Baptist churches in London. We were not there on a Sunday and didn't really look for any. I love all of the beautiful churches but would like to at least make an attempt to go to a church of our faith. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

I would be surprised if you found a Baptist church in London. Coming from the South, myself, I was always under the impression that Southern Baptist churches were sort of just an American thing, have you been to a Baptist church in any other country?
Although they might be a little quiet for a Baptists taste I love the Anglican services ( I grew up Presbyterian) ... although we don't attend church when we are there.
Why not try Westminster Abbey or the Church in St Martin in the Fields or St Pauls, so many churches to choose from!
Have a wonderful time~

Yes, I do know that Baptist missionaries are all over the world, but are the churches?

I just posted a response to this on another duplicate thread. I observed the congregation either coming or going.

Stockwell Baptist Church at 276 South Lambeth Road

More Baptists here:
http://www.christianityonline.co.uk/...ches%20k-o.htm

Other thread is here:
http://www.fodors.com/forums/pgMessa...=1&start=0

Baptists, certainly we have Baptists. Their churches are not conspicuous as the Church of England (where I worship) would not let them build until about 1830, and even then they were a minority church of working class people, not rich. I think that to this day they have no church in the City of London, meaning the area of medieval London. My much loved former neighbours, now retired to Kent, were Baptists, and the husband was minister to the Baptist church at Camberwell, as well as going out each morning at two to serve soup and bread to beggars and homeless people in Waterloo. (His wife thought this bad for his health. She was a primary school teacher. On their tiny income they had four children, every one of whom won a university degree, and had at least three children. Family Sunday lunch was a sight to see). Then thirty years ago I used to cycle over from my office to lunch and a talk on Wednesdays at the Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church.

If you set Google to Baptist Church London England you find just on page one churches in West Green Tottenham, Teddington, Totteridge Enfield, The East End, Kew, Homerton, Streatham, East Ham, Richmond, and Thornton Heath.

Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church is easy to reach by bus from the West End, and has a web page at http://www.findachurch.co.uk/churche...38/bloomsbury/, with times of meetings

English Baptists do not form a powerful group as the US Southern Baptists do, but they maintain the firm views of their founders whom the Tudor queens jailed and killed. My neighbours, for example, held that Charles Darwin was wrong.

Persecuted, active, in service of the poor, the Baptists know their Master (however wrong they may be on Darwin !).

Welcome to London.

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Well, there you have it! I was soo wrong
and happy for you that I was !
I have friends in Richmond, it would be a lovely day altogether, to go to church in the morning then find your way through the parks at Richmond then to Kew Gardens and tea at the Maids in Waiting right by the gardens.

A google search - "baptist churches in london" - provided this website;

http://www.londonbaptist.org.uk/lbawwwlo.htm

If you do the same search you will get many hits.

Maids of Honor..not maids of waiting

Thank you Jody.

Ben Haines, what a classy guy, always a gentleman, always with something illuminating to contribute to a thread.

Ben Haines...you are a true gentleman and it is a pleasure to read your posts. We spent a week in your beautiful city this summer and somehow I could understand, why, my dear grandmother used to say that each night, as I said my prayers, I should thank God that I was British!

Thanks everyone for such helpful replies. I want to do all of the helpful suggestions! I think we'll go to a Baptist church and also visit another church probably Anglican. As usual, Ben Haines offered great advice with a lovely personal note about his loved former neighbours. As I said when we were there previously we weren't there on a Sunday and just didn't even think about going to church as we were so into sightseeing everything! At 53 (I don't consider myselg old at all)...just mature with different interests. Anyway, I appreciate all of the wonderful suggestions and this time we will attend church on Sunday in London. Hugs to everyone!

If you go to a Baptist church on Sunday morning, you might consider the 6:30 p.m. service at the All Souls Anglican Church at Langham Place. My friend Noel Tredennick is music director there. Their web site is http://www.allsouls.org

Mr. Haines - What a lovely story! Thanks for sharing.

"My neighbours, for example, held that Charles Darwin was wrong."

And they were right!

Uncle Sam

Just what we needed. This correspondence was becoming too sweet: Uncle Sam marks Christmas with a timely dash of vinegar.
Uncle Sam: I wish you the blessings of Christmas.

Ben Haines

And all the blessings of Christmas to you Ben!

I hope you have a happy, blessed New Year as well!

Uncle Sam