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HONG KONG

CHINESE

RHENISH

CHURCH

ANDREW LEE KING-FUN, ARIBA, ARAIA,

B. Arch, architect

T.K.

LEUNG, BSc, DIC,

AMIStructE,

AMICE consulting engineer

PETER LEUNG CONSTRUCTION CO.

general contractor

CHEONG KEE BUILDING CONTRACTORS

site formation contractor

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HE new Chinese Rhenish Church

in Tung Lo Wan Road, Cause- way Bay, Hong Kong, stands as a monument to the faith and tenacity of the 600 members of the Wanchai Synod of the Rhenish Church in Hong Kong.

Despite financial problems and an extremely difficult site, the congrega- tion managed to raise sufficient funds to establish on a 7,390 sq. ft. area a church hall and gallery with a seating capacity of 500, an altar with space for sitting 60 choir members, a chapel which can be divided into classrooms by movable partitions during week- days for primary school students, a covered playground, office space and a minister's flat.

The site is at the bottom of a very steep slope behind Tung Lo Wan Road near Lin Fa Kung Street East. A future road, about 100 ft. above the ground level of the site is to be formed and a 20 ft. building line was stipulated in the Crown Lease as the area used as cutting slope for support-

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View of church from south

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