Immanuel Baptist Church (Yangon, Burma)

Immanuel Baptist Church community house.

Built in 1885 by an American missionary, the church was destroyed during World War II but rebuilt in 1952.[1] Until 1965, the pastor of the church was sent by the American Baptist International Ministries, which at that time was called the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society.[2] One of the founders of that missionary organisation was Adoniram Judson, who lived in Burma from 1813 to his death in 1850.[3] The church is on the Yangon City Heritage List, a list of man-made landmarks designated by the governmental Yangon City Development Committee.[4]

In the early 1960s over 90 percent of the congregation were Burmese, including ethnically Anglo-Indian and Anglo-Burmese.[5]

• 1951-1959 Brown, Rev. Russell E.
• 1960-1965 Allen, Bradley Moore
• 1965-1967 Unknown
• 1967-1990 Poba, George C.
• 1990-2013 F. John, Paul
• 2013-Current Rev.D Yaw Lar

• Myanmar Baptist Convention