In July 1899 a legal agreement was signed for the purchase of 2,000 square yards of land at a cost of £900 on Wheler Street, Higher Openshaw, as a site for a new Moravian church.
This was the result of several years of outreach by members of the Moravian Settlement at Fairfield in nearby Droylsden.
In 1920, Sir John Purser Griffith donated more than £2,000 to clear the building loans still outstanding on Wheler Street and three other Moravian churches.
Two men of Wheler Street acknowledged a call to ordained ministry and became Moravian ministers, Brn D Dickinson and D Howarth.
Declining membership, demographic change and costs of further development prompted a decision to close the congregation in 2009.