The Seamen's Bethel in Boston was a Methodist church whose pastor was the famous preacher Edward Thompson Taylor.

They acquired the vacant Methodist Alley chapel located in the North End, which was the heart of Boston's shipping industry.

The Port Society renamed the chapel the Seamen's Bethel, and at the end of the year Edward Thompson Taylor was hired as Mariner's Preacher.

The chapel in Methodist Alley proved too small for the growing congregation, and a new church was built at 12 North Square in 1833.

[1] The new building was purchased by the Saint Mark Society, a group of Italian immigrants, in 1884, and was named Sacred Heart by Archbishop Williams in 1888.