Canaanland
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Canaanland is the name of the campus of Winners' Chapel
(Living Faith Church), an Evangelical
megachurch
in Ota
, Ogun State
, Nigeria
.
The 560 acres (2.3 km²) facility opened in 1999, and has since expanded to almost 5000 acres (20.2 km²). It includes the headquarters of Winners' Chapel, the church building itself known as Faith Tabernacle, Covenant University
, Faith Academy Secondary School
, and Kingdom Heritage Nursery/Primary School. Several business ventures operated by the church are located within the Canaanland complex, including Dominion Publishing House, Hebron Bottled Water Processing Plant, a bakery, various restaurants and stores, four banks, and several residential estates that provide for the over 2,000 church employees and 9,000 students that live there. The 50,000 capacity Faith Tabernacle which was built within 10 months in 1999 is the worlds' largest church building.
Sunday services see a flood of members arriving at Canaanland, and the church maintains around 350 shuttle buses that bring congregants to the church from local markets and bus stops. The number of services on a Sunday as increased from 2 services to 3 services from 17th of January, 2010. A fourth service began on February 13, 2011. The first service starts from 6:30am, the second at 8.25 am, the third at 10.20 am and the fourth service at 12.15 pm. Each service lasts for one hour, forty minutes.
Each second week of December, Canaanland sees almost a million Christian pilgrims from all over the world gather for a program called Shiloh. The Church after Shiloh 2010 (Breakthrough Unlimited) as embarked on the building of Canaancity. The first phase will see the completion of 15000 housing units. The founder of Winners' Chapel, Bishop David Oyedepo
believes that a divine vision told him to hold such a gathering.
Winners' Chapel
Winners' Chapel is a megachurch founded by Bishop David Oyedepo in 1981.On May 1 and 2 !981, in a long drawn out 18 hour vision in a certain 'International Hotel' in Ilesa, Old Oyo State, Brother David Oyedepo, a native of Omu-Aran in Kwara State,Nigeria received a mandate that "The hour has come...
(Living Faith Church), an Evangelical
Evangelicalism
Evangelicalism is a Protestant Christian movement which began in Great Britain in the 1730s and gained popularity in the United States during the series of Great Awakenings of the 18th and 19th century.Its key commitments are:...
megachurch
Megachurch
A megachurch is a church having 2,000 or more in average weekend attendance. The Hartford Institute's database lists more than 1,300 such Protestant churches in the United States. According to that data, approximately 50 churches on the list have attendance ranging from 10,000 to 47,000...
in Ota
Ota, Nigeria
Ota is a town in Ogun State, Nigeria, and has an estimated 163,783 residents living in or around it Ota is the capital of the Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area. The traditional leader of Ota is the Olota of Ota, Oba Alani Oyede...
, Ogun State
Ogun State
Ogun State is a state in South-western Nigeria. It borders Lagos State to the South, Oyo and Osun states to the North, Ondo State to the east and the republic of Benin to the west. Abeokuta is the capital and largest city in the state...
, Nigeria
Nigeria
Nigeria , officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal constitutional republic comprising 36 states and its Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The country is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in...
.
The 560 acres (2.3 km²) facility opened in 1999, and has since expanded to almost 5000 acres (20.2 km²). It includes the headquarters of Winners' Chapel, the church building itself known as Faith Tabernacle, Covenant University
Covenant University
Covenant University is a private university in Canaanland, Ota, Ogun State, Nigeria. It was founded in 2002 by the Winners' Chapel , and the chancellor, David Oyedepo, is also the President and founding Bishop of the Winners' Chapel. It is a Christian institution and it strictly governed by the...
, Faith Academy Secondary School
Faith Academy Secondary School
Faith Academy is a Christian Secondary School located in Canaanland, Ota which is in the outskirts of Lagos, Nigeria. Faith Academy was established in 1999 by the Winners' Chapel Church and presently has nearly 2,000 students and all reside in the school premises as boarders.The school has students...
, and Kingdom Heritage Nursery/Primary School. Several business ventures operated by the church are located within the Canaanland complex, including Dominion Publishing House, Hebron Bottled Water Processing Plant, a bakery, various restaurants and stores, four banks, and several residential estates that provide for the over 2,000 church employees and 9,000 students that live there. The 50,000 capacity Faith Tabernacle which was built within 10 months in 1999 is the worlds' largest church building.
Sunday services see a flood of members arriving at Canaanland, and the church maintains around 350 shuttle buses that bring congregants to the church from local markets and bus stops. The number of services on a Sunday as increased from 2 services to 3 services from 17th of January, 2010. A fourth service began on February 13, 2011. The first service starts from 6:30am, the second at 8.25 am, the third at 10.20 am and the fourth service at 12.15 pm. Each service lasts for one hour, forty minutes.
Each second week of December, Canaanland sees almost a million Christian pilgrims from all over the world gather for a program called Shiloh. The Church after Shiloh 2010 (Breakthrough Unlimited) as embarked on the building of Canaancity. The first phase will see the completion of 15000 housing units. The founder of Winners' Chapel, Bishop David Oyedepo
David Oyedepo
David O. Oyedepo, affectionately called "Papa" by members of his church congregation is a Nigerian Christian author, Preacher and the founder and Presiding Bishop of Living Faith Church World Wide also known as Winners Chapel and its affiliated International churches known as Winners Chapel...
believes that a divine vision told him to hold such a gathering.