Metropolitan United Church

Metropolitan United Church has a long history of worship and service that began in 1818 in what is now the commercial heart of Toronto. The first building housing the congregation was a small Methodist chapel located on nearby King Street. Membership grew, along with population, so in 1831 another site was acquired on Adelaide Street, and a Georgian-style building was opened in 1833 that could accommodate 1,000 people.

In 1868 the Methodist Church purchased the present square-block property and constructed Metropolitan Wesleyan Methodist Church, which was dedicated in 1872. The building seated 2,000 and was described as Canada's "cathedral of Methodism." The United Church of Canada was formed in 1925 by the union of Methodist and Congregational and two-thirds of the Presbyterian churches in Canada. Metropolitan Wesleyan Methodist became Metropolitan United and was chosen as the site of the first General Council of the United Church.