First Swedish Methodist Episcopal Church (Saint Paul, Minn.).

According to the congregation's centennial publication, the history of the First Swedish Methodist Episcopal Church divides into three principal periods: The Scandinavian Methodist Episcopal Church (1854-1873), the period of separation (1873-1948), and then the St. John's Methodist Church (1948- ), in which the two separated congregations reunited.

The Scandinavian Methodist Episcopal Church began with a small group of Swedish and Norwegian Methodist families that met informally and sought a Scandinavian alternative to the English-language Methodist congregation in the city. The first official quarterly conference occurred in 1854, with the church occupying the old Jackson Street schoolhouse. A church building was completed in 1855 at the corner of Tenth and Temperance streets that served the congregation through 1887.

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