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Wesleyan Methodist Episcopal Church
Trenton, Mercer County

This large brick building at 439 Centre Street started as a Methodist church, was sold to the Ahvath Israel Congregation, then (1964) to the Bethlehem Baptist church, and currently is the Fountain of Praise Deliverance Tabernacle. According to the cornerstone it was erected in 1889, the same year a smaller Methodist chapel was erected a short distance away at 670 Centre Street. There has to be more to the story, but this is as much as I was able to tease out of the records at the Trenton Public Library. A longtime member of the First Baptist church in Trenton supplied additional details. He wrote:
    the Wesley Methodist on Centre Street near Landing was the Fifth    Baptist, which was organized by members of First Baptist in 1871 and
    moved to Centre Street in 1894. When Fifth Baptist was unable to
    support itself and its membership returned to First Baptist in 1910, the
    mother church sold the building to Wesley Methodist in 1911 or 1912.

Old photographs show it with marvelous onion domes on both towers when it served the Austro-Hungarian Jewish congregation.

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