First Wesleyan Church, circa 1950

First Wesleyan Church, circa 1950

Churches

Wesleyan Church

In 1913, several families in Bibb and Perry counties moved to Tuscaloosa to work at the Kaul Lumber Company, a new plant at the time, and Tuscaloosa Hosiery Mills. Mission work began in the homes of the people and a church was organized call Pierce Chapel. In 1915, the church name was changed to the First Wesleyan Methodist Church of Tuscaloosa. The church began meeting on the corner of Greensboro Avenue and 20th Street when its first building was completed on April 2, 1916. Improvements and expansion continued on that property and a new sanctuary was completed on May 10, 1953. The church merged with the Pilgrim Holiness Church and the two churches coming together took the name the Wesleyan Church in 1968.

The church met in that facility until October 1982, when the relocation to a multipurpose building at 1501 McFarland Blvd N. took place. Then a new sanctuary (currently serving as the Student Center) was completed on October 30, 1983. Expansion on this property continued, especially when the new, state of the art sanctuary was completed in January of 1999 to accommodate a growing church.

Tuscaloosa Public Library

Circa 1950

Betty Slowe (Description)

Photograph

2340

Tuscaloosa (AL)

Photograph

3 inches x 4 inches