Tan Bank - Primitive Methodist Chapel

Former Primitive Methodist Chapel

The Mosque on the corner of Tan Bank and Victoria Road was, until 1966, a Primitive Methodist chapel. The movement began in The Potteries at the turn of the Nineteenth Century and a 'camp meeting' was recorded on The Wrekin as early as 1808. Initially, Primitive Methodism was more prominent in rural areas, but an economic downturn in the east Shropshire coalfield at the beginning of the 1820s led to general revival in Methodism, allowing its various branches to establish a permanent foothold elsewhere.

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