In which religious denomination does 'Aldersgate Day' celebrate the day (24/05/1738) when John Wesley experienced his conversion in a meeting room in Aldersgate Street, London?
Aldersgate Day Aldersgate Day Aldersgate Day is a commemorative day celebrated by Methodist Christians on 24 May or the nearest Sunday. It recalls the day in 1738 when Church of England priest John Wesley attended a group meeting in Aldersgate, London, where he received an experience of assurance of his salvation. This was the pivotal event in Wesley's life that ultimately led to the development of the Methodist movement in Britain and America. In the calendars of the Methodist Church of Great Britain and the United Methodist Church the event is publicly commemorated in church services on the nearest Sunday to 24
Aldersgate Day May, called Aldersgate Sunday. According to his journal, Wesley found that his enthusiastic gospel message had been rejected by his Anglican brothers. Heavy-hearted, he reluctantly attended a group meeting that evening in a Moravian chapel on Aldersgate Street in London. It was there, while someone was reading from Martin Luther's Preface to the Epistle to the Romans, that he felt that his heart was "strangely warmed". He describes it as: I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone, for salvation; and an assurance was given me that he had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from