No_3_June_and_July__1941 — Page 29

Hong Kong Builder

CHINA CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH

PROPOSED

Wing G. Chan, Esq., Architect.

NEW EDIFICE

Messrs. Chau & Lee, Associate Architects.

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The Architect's drawing of the design most favoured by the Church Committee

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for the proposed new building.

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The ground floor plan showing the amenities of the

A church building is one of the visual manifestations of a community's culture and the visible expression of its spiritual interest. It is a poor community indeed that cannot boast of churches that have manifestly been de- signed to express the interests, the devotion, the con- fidence and the hopes of their congregations in their own and civic affairs.

In a Colony as cosmopolitan as Hong Kong where practically every race, nationality and creed is repre- sented but in relatively small groups, it cannot be expected that sufficient funds could be available for any except the few larger congregations wherewith to erect structures which are imposing either in size or appoint-

ments.

It is with great pleasure, therefore, that we publish details of a proposed new church for the China Con-

Social Hall and the position of gregation to be erected at the corner of Caroline Road |

the Staff Quarters Annex adjoin-

ing the main building.

and Pennington Street, Causeway Bay, in which the sponsors are in a happy position of being able to plan