Gospel Church, Guanghan

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Gospel Church, Guanghan
Grace Church
福音堂
Location
Style
Local architecture (old church building)
Modernist architecture (new church building)
Administration
ProvinceChina (formerly)
DioceseSzechwan (formerly)
West Szechwan (formerly; since 1936)
Clergy
Pastor(s)Guangyu Yu[1]

Gospel Church[a] is a Protestant church situated on Dabei Upper Street, in the county-level city of Guanghan, Deyang, Sichuan Province. Founded in 1902, it was formerly an Anglican church in the West Szechwan Diocese of the Church in China. It has been subjected to the control of the state-sanctioned Three-Self Patriotic Church since 1954. In 2003, a new church was built on Shuyuan Street, and renamed Grace Church.[b][2]

History

Survey of the Church Missionary Society's mission work in Hanchow, published in 1913.

Gospel Church was founded by a Church of England pastor in 1902, belonging to the Diocese of West Szechwan.[2] It is built in local architectural style, with a pseudo-Gothic door topped by a cross.

In 1929,

West China Border Research Society, and one of the key figures in the discovery of the archaeological site now known as Sanxingdui.[4]

After the communist takeover of China in 1949, Christian Churches in China were forced to sever their ties with respective overseas Churches, which has thus led to the merging of Gospel Church into the communist-established Three-Self Patriotic Church.

Consecration of a new church took place in 2003.[2] Unlike the original church, the new building was designed in an entirely Modernist style.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Chinese: 福音堂; pinyin: Fúyīn táng; Wade–Giles: Fu2-yin1 tʽang2; Sichuanese romanization: Fu5 In1 Tʽang2.
  2. ^ Chinese: 天恩堂; pinyin: Tiān'ēn táng; Wade–Giles: Tʽien1-ên1 tʽang2; lit. 'Heavenly Grace Church'.

References

  1. ^ Dai, Yuetan (9 December 2016). "四川德阳广汉市天恩堂多人穿以弗得受洗" [Ephods Worn by Numerous Candidates at the Baptism in Grace Church of Guanghan]. gospeltimes.cn (in Simplified Chinese). Archived from the original on 18 May 2021. Retrieved 18 May 2021.
  2. ^ a b c Tang, Wanxin (19 August 2016). "四川省广汉市基督教天恩堂简介" [An Introduction to the Heavenly Grace Christian Church at Guanghan, Sichuan]. gospeltimes.cn (in Simplified Chinese). Archived from the original on 18 May 2021. Retrieved 18 May 2021.
  3. ISSN 1671-265X
    . Retrieved 18 May 2021.
  4. ISBN 978-0-691-15298-1
    .

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