John & Charles Wesley and the early Methodists built The New Room to house their meetings. Photo by Joe Iovino, United Methodist Communications. John Wesley himself would have been familiar with the interior of this church building; he oversaw the construction of it in 1778.
Photo by Bob Johnson courtesy Flickr, via Wikimedia Commons.
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