Wesley Methodist Church, Taiping Perak

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Wesley Methodist Church
Location31, Walker Road, 34000 Taiping, Perak
Country Malaysia
Denomination Methodist
History
Founded6 February 1885
Clergy
Pastor(s) Tan Yee Ho

Taiping Wesley Methodist Church is located a church on Walker Road (Jalan Temenggong), Taiping, Malaysia. It is located near the Perak State Museum.

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History

The Wesley Methodist Church was formed with a group of youths called "Epworth League." The church was first started to accommodate the increasing number of English-educated Chinese Christian communities in the town and it once sheltered under the same building with the Chinese Methodist Church at Theater Road, Taiping. There is another Methodist church in town, serving Chinese-speaking congregations. The early pastors of the church were Rev. Burr H. Baughman, Rev. Dr. Peterson, Rev. N.G. Manickam, Rev. Eugene O Macgraw and Rev. Kjell Knutsen.

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