Yuguang Street Church ( zh, t=玉光街禮拜堂, s=玉光街礼拜堂) is a

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church in

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, China. It is the former Dalian Anglican Church ( zh, t=大連聖公會教堂, s=大连圣公会教堂, first=t, links=no; ) and the building is a Historical Protected Building of Dalian City.Churches in Dalian, Liaoning
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Brief history

In the early 20th century an Anglican church was built on the premises of the British consulate in Dalian. In 1928 the second-generation church building was built by a joint effort of the

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and the Anglican-Episcopal Church of Japan, and named Dalian Anglican Church. Services were held in English and Japanese. The church belonged to the North China Diocese of the Anglican-Episcopal Province of China. At the end of the

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, all Japanese-owned buildings were confiscated by the Chinese, the religious buildings were never used as such; as Britain owned half of the church, it was left as a Christian church and was renamed "Yuguang Street Church". During the

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of 1966-1977 when all religious activities were suppressed, the stained glass windows were smashed broken and the church was used as a place for children's activities. As Christian services restarted in the early 1980s, the church came under the post-denominational

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. In 2001, it was listed as one of Dalian City's 100 or so Protected Historical Buildings.

Cornerstone

The

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to the right of the church entrance says in English (on the left side) and Japanese (on the right, written vertically): "To the glory of God this stone was dedicated May 6th 1928 by Francis Lushington Norris D.D. bishop in north China" YuguangStChurch-DalianChina-CornerStone

References

External links

Yuguang Street Church in Dalain (The Protestant Church in China)
(in Chinese)
China Christian Council home page
in Chinese and English

(China Christian Council, in Chinese) {{coord, 38.91988, 121.64290, type:landmark_globe:earth_region:CN, display=title Dalian Yuguang Former Anglican churches in China Dalian Yuguang Churches in Dalian Dalian Yuguang 20th-century Anglican church buildings in China

Brief history

Cornerstone

See also

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