St. Andrew's Wesley Church
St. Andrew's Wesley Church is a church in downtown Vancouver , British Columbia . The church was built in 1933 with granite from Nelson Island and stone from Haddington Island , and the architects were British architects Twizell and Twizell.
The congregation belongs to the United Church of Canada and emerged from a merger of the Presbyterian St. Andrew’s and the Methodist Wesley Methodist church.
prehistory
Methodist missionaries arrived in Vancouver from Great Britain around 1859. A church was built on Water Street around 1875 but was destroyed in the 1886 Great Vancouver Fire . In 1887 the Methodist church split into two branches.
The first Presbyterian congregation organized itself in a local school in 1870. Their first church was built on Cordova Street but was also destroyed in the fire of 1886. In the years that followed, the parishes built and sold several other church buildings in the city.
In 1927 the Presbyterians of the Church at Georgia and Richards and the Wesley Methodists merged to form St. Andrew's-Wesley United Church . The sale of the smaller lot enabled the church to be bought by Burrard and Nelson. The new church opened on May 26, 1933.
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- ^ History . St. Andrew's Wesley Church. Archived from the original on November 2, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 30, 2012.
- ↑ http://www.memorybc.ca/st-andrews-wesley-church-vancouver-bc
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Coordinates: 49 ° 16 '52.5 " N , 123 ° 7' 36.3" W.