Tongchuan Church

Tongchuan Church
Tongchuan Meeting House around 1905
LocationSantai, Mianyang, Sichuan
CountryChina
DenominationThree-Self Church (Protestant)
Previous denominationQuaker
History
StatusChurch
Founded1900
Founder(s)Isaac Mason
Architecture
Functional statusActive
StyleWestern Sichuanese residential style (original church building)
Administration
ProvinceSzechwan Yearly Meeting (formerly)
DioceseSantai Monthly Meeting (formerly)

Tongchuan Church, formerly known as Tongchuan Meeting House, Santai Meeting House or Gospel Church,[1] is a Protestant church building situated on Jiefang Lower Street (lit.'Liberation Lower Street') in Santai, a county under the administration of the city of Mianyang, Sichuan. Founded in 1900 by the British Quaker mission, Friends' Foreign Mission Association, as their meeting house, the church has been subjected to the control of the state-sanctioned Chinese Three-Self Patriotic Church since 1954.

  1. ^ Mianyang Bureau of Religious Affairs, ed. (1998). "礼拜堂选介——潼川礼拜堂" [Introduction of Selected Church Buildings: Tongchuan Church]. 绵阳市民族宗教志 [Annals of Religion in Mianyang] (in Simplified Chinese). Chengdu: Sichuan People's Publishing House. p. 435. ISBN 722003993X.