This is only the fourth church to have stood on this location since its inception in 1681. Meeting Street takes its name from the first church on this site, which was dubbed “The White Meeting House.” Services were disrupted during the 1780-1782 occupation of Charleston as the British used the church as a hospital for their wounded. The great fire of 1861 claimed the third church. For over 20 years the ruins sat on Meeting Street, until it was demolished in the earthquake of 1886. As many bricks as possible were salvaged from the ruins to build this church in 1892.