Everything tagged: church

Henry Ching remembers going to school here in 1939:

Wrt brianwindsoredgar’s post on the American missionary Charles Winter and the references therein to the schools run by the Seventh Day Adventist, the SDA also ran a small school in their Church in Ventris Road, Happy Valley.  I was a “pupil” there, beginning I think in 1939 when I was six years old and until December 1941.

Completion date taken from the church's website:

 The new structure was hallowed on Saturday 27th February 1937 and regular services began on Sunday. The Kowloon Tong Anglican Church became Christ Church and the consecration service was held on 29th October 1938.

Completion date is mentioned in this document from 1925 http://www.legco.gov.hk/1925/h250514.pdf (thanks to Annelise for the link):

St. Peter's Church was erected in 1871 on a portion of the present site of the Sailors' Home. The cost of the building was defrayed by subscriptions raised in the Colony and elsewhere and by

I've set the completion date to 1951, based on:

The AMO's Built heritage in Hong Kong says:

I found it from HKGRO that there was once an Anglican Church at 3 Duke Street, Kowloon. Anyone know its history and was this church moved to a new place or closed?

I don't know the exact location, so I've just put a marker on the barracks.

Demolition date from this document.

Anonymous wrote:

Does anyone know where further information may be obtained concerning the former St. Eligius' Church, located at Gun Club Hill Barracks which was demolished in the early 1990s to make way for the new military hospital on the site.

Read about its history on the church website.