Whitefield's Tabernacle, Moorfields
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Whitefield's Tabernacle, Moorfields (alternate: Moorfields Tabernacle) is a church at the corner of Tabernacle Street and Leonard Street, London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

, England, originally a wooden building built by followers of George Whitefield
George Whitefield
George Whitefield , also known as George Whitfield, was an English Anglican priest who helped spread the Great Awakening in Britain, and especially in the British North American colonies. He was one of the founders of Methodism and of the evangelical movement generally...

 in 1741, replaced by a brick building in 1753, and again rebuilt over a century later. John Wesley
John Wesley
John Wesley was a Church of England cleric and Christian theologian. Wesley is largely credited, along with his brother Charles Wesley, as founding the Methodist movement which began when he took to open-air preaching in a similar manner to George Whitefield...

 preached a sermon "On the death of the Rev Mr George Whitefield" http://gbgm-umc.org/umhistory/wesley/sermons/serm-053.stm both here and at Whitefield's Tabernacle, Tottenham Court Road
Whitefield's Tabernacle, Tottenham Court Road
Whitefield's Tabernacle, Tottenham Court Road, a church in London, England; also called Tottenham Court Road Chapel, was built in 1756 for George Whitefield. It was enlarged in 1759...

 in 1770.

It appears from A History of Middlesex that it was replaced in 1907 by a new building in Alexandra Park Road, later known as Alexandra Park Congregational Church
Congregational church
Congregational churches are Protestant Christian churches practicing Congregationalist church governance, in which each congregation independently and autonomously runs its own affairs....

 and later still as Alexandra Park United Reformed Church
United Reformed Church
The United Reformed Church is a Christian church in the United Kingdom. It has approximately 68,000 members in 1,500 congregations with some 700 ministers.-Origins and history:...

. As of 2004 this was being converted into flats http://www.haringey.gov.uk/oct_2004.pdf.

See also

  • Whitefield's Tabernacle
    Whitefield's Tabernacle
    Whitefield's Tabernacle, name of several churches, including:* Whitefield's Tabernacle, Moorfields, London* Whitefield's Tabernacle, Tottenham Court Road, London* Whitefield's Tabernacle, Bristol...

    - disambiguation page with a list of churches by this name

External links

  • Location map
  • There was a booklet Alexandra Park Congregational Church published in 1970
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