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Salem Methodist Church
Salem,Salem County

      

This is the congregation's third church; the second church, a brick one erected in 1838 on this site, was replaced in 1888 by this large Gothic structure. A small frame building across the street that was the original Methodist church still exists (but probably not for long). This building bears some resemblance to the Trinity Methodist church in Millville, erected about the same time. I suspect both are products of architect Benjamin Price, who provided several thousand plans to Methodist congregations in the last decades of the nineteenth century. The main sanctuary is on the second floor, with the ground floor given to Sunday school and other meeting rooms.
     Methodist meetings were first held in Salem in 1774, 10 years before Asbury was ordained as the first bishop in the country. The Salem Circuit was established by 1774.

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