Gospel Church, Jiangyou

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Gospel Church, Jiangyou
福音堂
Jiang You Fu Yin Tang .jpg
Gospel Church after being rebuilt
Location Jiangyou, Mianyang, Sichuan
CountryChina
Denomination Three-Self Church (Protestant)
Previous denomination Anglican
Churchmanship Low church evangelical
History
Status Church
Founded1894
Founder(s) Church Missionary Society
Past bishop(s) William Cassels
Architecture
Functional statusActive
Style Gothic Revival
Groundbreaking 1890s (old church building)
2008 (new church building)
Administration
Province China (formerly)
Diocese Szechwan (formerly)
West Szechwan (formerly; since 1936)
Clergy
Pastor(s) Xianke Li [1]

Gospel Church [lower-alpha 1] is a Protestant church in the county-level city of Jiangyou, under the administration of the city of Mianyang, Sichuan Province. Founded in 1894, it was formerly an Anglican church in the West Szechwan Diocese of the Church in China. [2] It has been subjected to the control of the state-sanctioned Three-Self Patriotic Church since 1954.

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History

Survey of the Church Missionary Society's mission work in Chungpa, published in 1913. Survey of Chungpa Anglican Mission, published in 1913.png
Survey of the Church Missionary Society's mission work in Chungpa, published in 1913.

In 1894, a group of Church Missionary Society (CMS) missionaries led by the Rev. James Heywood Horsburgh introduced Anglicanism into a small town known as Zhongba  [ zh ] (formerly romanised as Chungpa) under the administration of Jiangyou. [3] They established churches and mission stations across western Sichuan, [2] Chungpa Church was the first church building in the province founded by the CMS. [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. [5]

During the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, the church was damaged beyond repair. A new Gospel Church was built at the junction of Fujiang Road and Qingxin Alley, completed in an entirely neo-Gothic style. [2]

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Notes

  1. Chinese :福音堂; pinyin :Fúyīn táng; Wade–Giles :Fu2-yin1 tʽang2; Sichuanese romanization: Fu5 In1 Tʽang2.

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