C.S.I. Wesley English Pastorate, Chennai

The C.S.I. Wesley English Pastorate or Circuit as it was known in earlier times comprises three Churches – the Egmore Wesley Church, the Broadway Wesley Church and the St.Thomas Mount Wesley Church. Of these the oldest is the Broadway Wesley Church which is the birthplace of the Methodist Mission in Southern India.

C.S.I. Broadway Wesley Church

Broadway Wesley Church , the oldest in the Wesley English Circuit was opened on 25th April,1822. It was built by the Methodist Missionary the Rev. James Lynch who had been sent by the Wesleyan Methodist Foreign Missionary society. He began his services in a stable in Black Town on Popham’s Broadway and then shifted to a godown in the same area. The original chapel built on this site deteriorated was torn down and rebuilt in 1844 in the form in which it exists today.

C.S.I. St. Thomas Mount Wesley church

St. Thomas Mount Wesley church built in 1828 by the Methodist Minister the Rev. Elijah Hoole. A feeding centre was started with regular gifts from the congregation and 30 to 40 poor children were fed every day until the Tamil Nadu Government introduced the free mid- day meals scheme. Six cottages were built on the campus for the use of elderly folk who were in difficult circumstances and are in use even today.