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# Aldersgate Street: The Birth of Methodist Conviction Standing on Aldersgate Street in 1738, you would have witnessed the moment that ignited one of Christianity's most transformative movements—the evangelical conversion of John Wesley on May 24th at the meeting room of the Religious Society (like...

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This tablet is erected to the glory of God in commemoration of the Evangelical Conversion of the Rev. John Wesley, M.A., on May 24, 1738. (This site of the meeting room of the Religious Society was probably 28 Aldersgate Street). And of the Rev. Charles Wesley, M.A., on May 21, 1738. The site of the house is near St Batholomew's Hospital. (No12 Little Britain). Erected by the International Methodist Historical Union. May 24 1926.