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'''Canaanland''' is a city where the Home of Signs and Wonders, [[Winners' Chapel]] (Living Faith Church) is based, an [[Evangelicalism|Evangelical]] [[megachurch]] in [[Ota, Nigeria|Ota]], [[Ogun State]], [[Nigeria]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Living Faith shuts down Canaan land with the first night of annual prayer programme |url=https://amp.pulse.ng/communities/religion/living-faith-shuts-down-canaan-land-with-2017-shiloh-id7693997.html}}</ref> |
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|name = Cannan Land. |
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|established = [[January]], [[1988]] |
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|city = [[Ota]] |
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|state = [[Ogun State]] |
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|country = [[Nigeria]] |
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|size = [[560 acres]] |
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|website= [http://www.davidoyedepoministries.org/ DOMI] |
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The {{convert|560|acre|km2|adj=on}} facility opened in 1999, and has since expanded to almost {{convert|5000|acre|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 world's largest church building. |
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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 increased from 2 services to 3 services from 17 January 2010. A fourth service began on February 13, 2011. The first service starts at 6:00 am, the second at 7:55 am, the third at 9:50 am and the fourth service at 11:45 am (Nigerian Time). Each service lasts for one hour, fifty-five minutes. |
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'''Canaanland''' was opened in 1999 then as a 560 acre church facility by [[Winners' Chapel]] (Living Faith Church). It is in Ota, a suburb of [[Lagos]], [[Nigeria]]. |
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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) 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. |
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Inside Canaanland is an outlay of beautiful gardens and parks,well laid out and maintained to complement the good roads and modern houses and structures in the Complex. |
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Canaanland hosts the headquarters of Winners' Chapel and the world's largest church building called Faith Tabernacle, Covenant University, Faith Academy Secondary School, Kingdom Heritage Nursery/Primary School all owned by Winners’ Chapel. |
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Other establishments owned by the Church inside Canaanland includes Dominion Publishing House, Hebron Bottled Water Processing Plant, a bakery, various restaurants, stores, residential estates and four Banks. |
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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20190502234503/http://www1.davidoyedepoministries.org/ David Oyedepo Ministries] |
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Every second week of December, close to one million Christian pilgrims from all over the world come to Canaanland for an annual Prophetic gathering of Winners’ Chapel called Shiloh.This is according to the divine vision given to the founder of Winners' Chapel Bishop David Oyedepo,under whose supervision Canaanland was built. |
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Due to its distance (20 km) from Lagos Metropolis, a fleet of about 350 Shuttle Buses owned by the Church joins in conveying worshippers to and fro Faith Tabernacle, Canaanland every week for Sunday Service. |
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Canaanland is presently 5,000 acres and expansion of both the Covenant University and Shiloh Camp ground inside it are already on. The facility also has more than 2,000 resident church workers, pastors and lecturers besides the nearly 9,000 students accommodated there. |
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Latest revision as of 16:58, 11 November 2024
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Canaanland is a city where the Home of Signs and Wonders, Winners' Chapel (Living Faith Church) is based, an Evangelical megachurch in Ota, Ogun State, Nigeria.[1]
The 560-acre (2.3 km2) facility opened in 1999, and has since expanded to almost 5,000 acres (20 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 world's 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 increased from 2 services to 3 services from 17 January 2010. A fourth service began on February 13, 2011. The first service starts at 6:00 am, the second at 7:55 am, the third at 9:50 am and the fourth service at 11:45 am (Nigerian Time). Each service lasts for one hour, fifty-five 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) 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.
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