John Wesley, 1703 - 1791

In 1736-37, on the trust lot south of President Street and immediately west of this square, John Wesley lived in a parsonage where he read, prayed, and meditated in the adjoining garden, and where weekly meetings of members of his Christ Church congregation were held in the small wooden dwelling. Wesley said, "The first rise of Methodism was in 1729 when four of us met together at Oxford. The second was at Savannah in 1736 when twenty or thirty persons met at my house." He is depicted from the period of his Georgia ministry wearing his Church of England vestments.

Savannah, Georgia · United States