Coke Chapel - the early years
late 1780s
~ one of the houses in Kingston that Dr. Coke stayed at when he visited Jamaica on the mission to spread the message of John Wesley to the world.
around 1790
. . . . the house on East Parade that was bought from a wealthy merchant and converted into Jamaica's first Wesleyan-Methodist Chapel.
1800
~ a lithograph from 1800 of the early Coke Chapel, converted from the house on East Parade, and being used from the 1790s to the 1830s.
1843
~ the new Coke Chapel, built on the site of the old Chapel, which was pulled down at the end of the 1830s.
William and Venus Harris - early members of the Coke Chapel community.
(~ excerpts from 19th century Methodist periodicals.)
" ... the large and splendid Wesley Chapel, Thames Street, Kingston ..."
Part of a drawing of the east side of the Parade in 1839, showing, I think, the new Coke Chapel in the process of being built!
