The Capitol Hill Baptist Church held an outdoor service in D.C. on Sunday morning, its first in-person gathering in the city since the pandemic started — and one that comes in the wake of a legal victory over Mayor Muriel Bowser’s COVID-19 restrictions.

The 850-member Evangelical church sued D.C. in late September, arguing that Bowser’s ban on church gatherings of more than 100 people violated the church’s constitutional rights. (The church has said that virtual gatherings don’t replicate or replace in-person services.) A federal judge agreed with the church earlier this month, allowing it to hold in-person services in D.C. while the lawsuit proceeds through the courts.

With permission from the National Park Service, the church’s members gathered at Anacostia Park in Southeast at 11 a.m. on Sunday. According to a three-page logistics guide, congregants were required to wear face coverings and remain at least six feet away from each other at all times. In past weeks the church had been holding similar outdoor services in Virginia. The church had sought waivers to hold services in the parking lot of RFK Stadium, but had been denied.

“Sweet to be with Capitol Hill Baptist Church as it is allowed to gather in the District to worship for the first time since March. Outdoors, masked, socially distanced, careful, and so joyful because of the gospel,” tweeted Sam Arora, a former member of the Maryland House of Delegates from Montgomery County.

In the bulletin made available to congregants ahead of the service, the church included one specific portion of its Statement of Faith — the provision dealing with civil government.

“We believe that Civil Government is of Divine appointment, for the interests and good order of human society; and that magistrates are to be prayed for, conscientiously honored, and obeyed; except only in things opposed to the will of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is the only Lord of the conscience, and the Prince of the kings of the earth,” it read.