Bridges Street Market (Chinese: 必列啫士街街市) is located at No. 2 Bridges Street, at the corner of Shing Wong Street, in Sheung Wan, Hong Kong. It is a Bauhaus style market building, originally opened in 1953,[1] and scheduled to be renovated and open in 2018 as a news museum.[2][3]

Bridges Street Market in 2008.
Bridges Street Market interior in 2010.

History edit

Bridges Street Market was partly built on the site of the former American Congregational Mission Preaching House at which Dr. Sun Yat-Sen was baptised into Christianity in 1883.[4][5]

Conservation edit

Bridges Street Market is part of the Central and Western Heritage Trail and the Dr Sun Yat-sen Historical Trail. It was listed as a Grade III historic building in 2011.[6]

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Antiquities and Monuments Office: Historic Building Appraisal, Bridges Street Market Archived 22 July 2015 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ 必列啫士街市「包浩斯」活化重生 The Sun. 27 April 2011. (in Chinese)
  3. ^ Chou, Oliver (22 August 2016). "Hong Kong's news museum will show history as it happened". South China Morning Post.
  4. ^ Bridges Street Market – 2 Bridges Street, Central[permanent dead link] Film Services Office. Retrieved 23 September 2011.
  5. ^ Antiquities and Monuments Office: Original Site of the American Congregational Mission Preaching House, 2 Bridges Street Archived 23 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine.
  6. ^ New items in addition to 1,444 historic buildings already assessed Archived 15 November 2017 at the Wayback Machine (as of 18 April 2016)

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