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Welcome to the Niantic Baptist Church

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Welcome to the Niantic Baptist Church

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Welcome

Welcome to the new (and soon to be improved) website of the Niantic Baptist Church, an American Baptist Church located at 443 Main Street in beautiful seaside Niantic, CT. We are a small church with a big heart. Our worship style is traditional, but never stuffy, and we enjoy a wonderful music program at NBC. 


Whether you are new in town, new to your faith, or just haven’t been to church in a while, we invite you to join us for biblically based sermons, uplifting music and heartfelt prayers in our newly renovated sanctuary. If you have any questions about our church, please contact Pastor Jill Harvey at NianticBaptistPastor@gmail.com.

Worship Information

Join Us Every Sunday!

Worship meets at 10:30 a.m., and all are warmly welcomed. Worship materials are available in advance every week, and you can also join us for worship via Zoom. 

Please contact the church office at NianticBaptist@gmail.com or 860-739-5131 for our Zoom credentials.

Announcements

Adult Bible Study meets on Sunday mornings, 9:15 a.m.

Wednesday Bible Study is now meeting via Zoom, 1:00 p.m.  Contact the office for sign-in credentials.


Contact Us

Or better yet, visit us in person!

The church office is open Thursday mornings, 9:00 to 11:30 a.m.

Niantic Baptist Church

443 Main Street, Niantic, Connecticut 06357, United States

P.O. Box 502 860-739-5131 NianticBaptist@gmail.com

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A Brief History of the Church

  

The Second Baptist Church of East Lyme was founded in 1843 by 55 members of the East Lyme Baptist Church and 3 members of the First Baptist Church of Waterford. The church’s first meetinghouse was constructed that same year on land donated by Roswell & Mary Smith and Benjamin & Clarissa Champlin. The church building burned to the ground in 1866 and was rebuilt and rededicated on the same site with frescoed tin walls in 1867.  The church’s name was changed to Niantic Baptist Church in 1889.

A baptistry was installed under the pulpit in 1894 and used for the first time that Easter. A tin ceiling was installed in 1907, electric lights in 1914 which were replaced by larger lights in 1923, and Hunt Hall was added in 1959. The 1938 hurricane destroyed the tall box cupola above the belfry, which was replaced with the current pointed cupola.

The Niantic Baptist Church has ministered to its members and the community continuously since it was founded, missing only two weeks of worship at the beginning of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic before launching Zoom worship services while the building was closed. In-person worship resumed in September 2020, and a hybrid worship service is now offered every Sunday.

In February 2022 one of the church’s furnaces burned up, broadcasting soot throughout the building and damaging the sanctuary’s tin walls and ceiling. The congregation moved temporarily into the basement for worship while a complete restoration of the sanctuary was undertaken. That project was completed in November 2023, and the sanctuary was rededicated on January 8, 2023.

The Niantic Baptist Church joyfully continues its mission to give visible form to that faith and fellowship to which God has called his people, working through Jesus Christ and ministering to the world by his Holy Spirit. 

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