Trinity Church, Langzhong

Trinity Church, Langzhong
Protestant Episcopal Church
三一堂
Trinity Church in 1899. The persons represented as standing outside are Bishop Cassels, Mr Williams, and the Chinese churchwarden. Photograph by Isabella Bird.
Location46 Langjiaguai Street, Langzhong, Sichuan
CountryChina
DenominationThree-Self Church (Protestant)
Previous denominationChurch in China (under the jurisdiction of the Church of England)[1]
ChurchmanshipLow church evangelical
History
StatusChurch
Founded1893
Founder(s)William Cassels (China Inland Mission)
DedicationHoly Trinity
Consecrated25 December 1893
Past bishop(s)William Cassels
Architecture
Functional statusActive
StyleWestern Sichuanese residential style
Groundbreaking1893
Administration
ProvinceChina (formerly)
DioceseSzechwan (formerly)
East Szechwan (formerly; since 1936)

Trinity Church,[a] also referred to as Protestant Episcopal Church,[2] is a Protestant church situated on Langjiaguai Street in the county-level city of Langzhong, Nanchong, Sichuan Province. Founded in 1893, the building is the city's oldest surviving Anglican church, formerly belonging to the East Szechwan Diocese of the Church in China.[3][4] It has been subjected to the control of the state-sanctioned Three-Self Patriotic Church since 1954.

  1. ^ Bird-Bishop 1900, p. 5.
  2. ^ Bird-Bishop 1900, p. 9.
  3. ^ Wang, Meng (2010). ""剑桥七杰"与阆中圣约翰教堂" [The 'Cambridge Seven' and St John's Church in Langzhong]. 守望吾土吾乡 (in Simplified Chinese). Yinchuan: Ningxia People's Publishing House. ISBN 9787227044475.
  4. ^ Gray, G. F. S. (1996). Anglicans in China: A History of the Zhonghua Shenggong Hui (Chung Hua Sheng Kung Huei). New Haven, CT: The Episcopal China Mission History Project. p. 34. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.695.4591.


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