Whitefield's Tabernacle, Moorfields

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| location = Tabernacle Street and Leonard Street, London

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Whitefield's Tabernacle, Moorfields (also known as Moorfields Tabernacle) is a former church at the corner of Tabernacle Street and Leonard Street, Moorfields, London, England. The first church on the site was a wooden building erected by followers of the evangelical preacher George Whitefield in 1741. This was replaced by a brick building in 1753. Following Whitefield's death in 1770, John Wesley preached a sermon, "On the death of the Rev. Mr George Whitefield", both here and at Whitefield's Tabernacle, Tottenham Court Road.{{cite web |url=http://gbgm-umc.org/umhistory/wesley/sermons/serm-053.stm |title=Sermon 53: On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield |first=John |last=Wesley |publisher=General Board of Global Ministries |accessdate=12 March 2013 }}

The church was rebuilt in stone over a century later in 1868, to a robust Gothic design by C. G. Searle & Son.{{cite book |first1=Bridget |last1=Cherry |author1-link=Bridget Cherry |first2=Nikolaus |last2=Pevsner |authorlink2=Nikolaus Pevsner |title=London 4: North |series=The Buildings of England |place=London |publisher=Penguin |year=1998 |isbn=0140710493 |page=607 }} Immediately west of the church itself (in Leonard Street) a Sunday School was built. The foundation stone of the 1868 building reads: "Near this spot stood the Tabernacle built by the Rev. George Whitefield in 1753: 115 years afterward it was taken down and in its place this building was erected."

In 1907 a successor church opened near Alexandra Park, north London: this was known initially as Whitefield Tabernacle, but from 1922 as Alexandra Park Congregational Church. Many members of the Moorfields congregation transferred their allegiance, and numerous benefactions were also transferred.{{cite book |editor1-first=T. F. T. |editor1-last=Baker |editor2-first=R.B. |editor2-last=Pugh |chapter=Tottenham: Protestant nonconformity |title=A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 5: Hendon, Kingsbury, Great Stanmore, Little Stanmore, Edmonton Enfield, Monken Hadley, South Mimms, Tottenham |year=1976 |publisher=University of London |place=London |isbn=0197227422 |pages=356–364 |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=26995#s7 }} The Moorfields Tabernacle building was taken over by the nearby Central Foundation Boys' Grammar School. The Alexandra Park church was converted into flats in 2004.{{cite web |title=Planning Application Details: Alexandra Park United Reformed Church: Ref. HGY/2003/1153 |publisher=Haringey Council |url=http://www.planningservices.haringey.gov.uk/portal/servlets/ApplicationSearchServlet?PKID=32945 |date=19 October 2004 |accessdate=14 July 2018 }}