CHINESE METHODIST CHURCH AND SCHOOL
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Photograph of the main facade.
a fine splendidly proportioned hall, 106'0" long, 51'-6" wide and 36′-0′′ high, with its clean simple lines, its brightness, and its orderly spaciousness, endows the congrega- tion with the assurance that the spirit of worship in this modern world of ours sublimates the dignity of humanity and exhalts its mental and spiritual powers.
The first Methodist meetings in Hong Kong took place amongst the soldiers stationed in Stanley in 1843. These ultimately led to the establishment of the English Meth- odist Church which is now Wanchai and to the coming of the first Methodist missionary to the Chinese who landed in Hong Kong in January, 1851.
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The school wing looking towards the entrance.
splendid new building which beholder with the nobility of the was recently completed in purpose for which it had been Kowloon is, we feel sure, an out- created. The design departs frankly standing example of modern design and boldly from the conservative and craftsmanship applied to an
and generally accepted idea of a Ecclesiastical building. The church church building, but it nevertheless was dedicated on Saturday, Decem- suffers nothing by this deviation ber 8th, 1951, and the school officially from the conventional. On the con- opened by H.E. the Governor, Sir trary, this acceptance of modernity Alexander Grantham, on December in its design symbolises the fact that 18th, 1951.
the Church moves with the spirit
This beautiful and impressive of the times, and emphasises the building stands majestically on an lesson in imperishable stone that eminence overlooking the main religion is by no means an outdated thoroughfare of Kowloon and by its force, or inapplicable to modern dignity of line and unusual massing existence. of planes cannot fail to impress the
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The interior of the church itself, View of the building from Gascoigne Road,
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