01/07/2026
While on holiday on the Devon coast, our Museum Curator, Ellie, took the opportunity to visit one of the places that shaped George Muller's remarkable story.
📩 Here's what she had to say:
"On a recent holiday near Teignmouth I was able to go hunting for some of the places connected with George Muller. Ebenezar Chapel in Teignmouth (above) was the home of George Muller's main congregation when he first began preaching. It was the place where he first ended pew rents and stopped taking a salary. The building is difficult to get to (I had to photograph it through a locked gate) but as a listed building, looks much the same as it would have done in 1830 when Muller was there. It was surprisingly moving to be in the place where the foundation stone of his life's work (trusting in God to provide) was laid. His legacy is 17,556 children cared for in Bristol, 120,000 children educated in day schools in his lifetime, countless preaches, missionary tours, and work funded overseas, and a charity still working to care for vulnerable children today. And all of it happening because Muller decided, in this very chapel, to trust in God's faithfulness. Pretty special.
From Ellie"
