| Need for religious service on Asylum Hill discussed during a call on David Bartlett and Fanny Bartlett by Wolcott Calkins; the Bartletts hosted the first neighborhood prayer meeting at their house on Asylum Avenue; neighborhood prayer meeting grew in size; location would vary until Asylum Hill Congregational Chapel dedicated in March 1865. Additional details: there is no exact date available for Calkins’s call on the Bartletts, for the first neighborhood prayer meeting, or any subsequent neighborhood prayer meetings; however, all sources agree that the prayer meetings began after the Sunday school was organized and before Calvin Stowe began his Bible study. |