Launch of the Methodist Movement

Date: May 24, 1738 • Location: Barbican, United Kingdom

At a Moravian meeting in Aldersgate, London, John Wesley (pictured) experienced a spiritual rebirth, leading him to launch the Methodist movement.

The Moravian Church, or the Moravian Brethren, formally the Unitas Fratrum, is one of the oldest Protestant denominations in Christianity, dating back to the Bohemian Reformation of the 15th century and the original Unity of the Brethren founded in the Kingdom of Bohemia, sixty years before Martin Luther's Reformation.