Canaan Land

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Canaanland is the name of the site of the Winners' Chapel (Living Faith Church), an evangelical megachurch in Ota , in the Nigerian state of Ogun .

The area of ​​228 hectares when it was opened in 1999 has since been expanded to over 2000 hectares. On top of it are the headquarters of the Winners' Chapel, the church building itself, called Faith Tabernacle , a university, the Covenant University , an academy, a school, the Faith Academie Secondary School and a primary school. Various businesses operated by the church are also located on the premises, including a publishing house, a bottling plant, a bakery, restaurants and department stores, four banks and various residential complexes for 2,000 church employees and 9,000 students. The Faith Tabernacle , with a capacity of 50,000 seats, was built within ten months in 1999 and is one of the ten largest church buildings in the world.

350 shuttle buses are used to transport the countless visitors who come to the service on Sundays. Every year in the second week of December there is an event called Shiloh , which attracts up to a million participants from Nigeria and around the world. The founder of the Winners' Chapel, David Oyedepo , claims that this gathering is to be called by divine command.

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