Wesley Place

St. Andrew's Wesley Church in downtown Vancouver is a historic building from 1933, constructed of granite from Nelson Island and stone from Haddington Island. The British architecture firm Twizell and Twizell designed the building, which now belongs to the United Church of Canada. The congregation was formed through the merger of the Presbyterian St. Andrew's and the Methodist Wesley Methodist congregations. Both traditions date back to the late 1850s, when missionaries came to Vancouver. After earlier church buildings were destroyed in the Great Vancouver Fire of 1886 and the congregations moved several times, the present building opened on May 26, 1933.