Lovely Lane United Methodist Church in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is named after "The Mother Church of American Methodism," Lovely Lane UMC of Baltimore, MD.

The original Lovely Lane Meeting House was located in downtown Baltimore, MD, at 206 E. Redwood Street. It was at that site that the Methodist Episcopal Church was organized at the 1784 Christmas Conference. There, Francis Asbury and others were ordained by Bishop Coke and sent "to reform the nation and spread scriptural holiness over these lands."

You can read more about the history of the original Lovely Lane UMC in Balitmore, and also learn about the Lovely Lane Museum & Archives in Baltimore.

Read about the history of Lovely Lane UMC in Cedar Rapids.