Jesse Lee, the minister who established Methodism in New England, preached his first sermon in New England in June of 1789 in the center of Norwalk. The town’s first Methodist church was built in South Norwalk in 1816. By 1858, the congregation had grown so large that it divided. Planning for a new church, which is now called the Norwalk United Methodist Church, began at a meeting on April 25, 1858 at “Phoenix Hall,” which was then located at the Norwalk River Bridge on Wall Street. Work on the church edifice at 724 West Avenue started in 1859 and the building was dedicated on December 6, 1860. An Italianate structure, it was designed by architect Tappan Reeve of Brooklyn, New York. Ornamentation, removed from the church’s towers in the wake of storm damage in the 1920s, has more recently been replicated and the church repainted in its original colors.
I think you had better research this a little bit better you are forgetting about the founder of the Church Dr John Wesley who not only lived up the street,next door to my great grand mother ,but gave sermons in this church. This was his first church in the United States.
The type of church it is is a Temple, and requires a Doctor of Theology and an assistant minister. It is part of the Norwalk Historic City LandTrust Properties and anyone who tries to restore them has to Always call the TRUST or you may be FINED,there are document to be filed and the church and the rectory and other buildings correctly done for our religious history as Dr. Wesley would insist.
Sharon D Giannini