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Flower Lane Church

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Flower Lane Church (Chinese: 花巷基督教堂; Pinyin: Huāxiàng Jīdū Jiàotáng; Foochow Romanized: Huă-háe̤ng Gĭ-dók Gáu-dòng) is a Christian church located at Dongjiekou (东街口), the most prosperous downtown area of Gulou District, Fuzhou, Fujian Province, China.

As the first Methodist church built within the Fuzhou city wall, Flower Lane Church was originally known as Siông-iū-dòng (尚友堂, lit. "church for social intercourse"). In 1915 the Methodist Episcopal Mission in Fuzhou purchased what used to be the mansion of a Ryukyuan king in Qing Dynasty and rebuilt it into a city institutional church, holding its first baptism on September 5 of the same year. The building was subsequently reconstructed in 1938, standing out as being the only church in Fuzhou with a granite structure and containing a flower hall and a fishpond in the interior.

In the Republic of China Era, Siông-iū-dòng was an influential religious organization. It established Céng-dáik School (进德学校, later changed to Céng-dáik Girls' Middle School / 进德女中) which was engaged in the teaching of modern culture and served as the preparatory school for Hŏk-lìng Anglo-Chinese College (鹤龄英华中学), and also founded Siông-iū-dòng Kindergarten. But all school activities were put to an end during the Japanese Occupation in the 1940s.

After the communists' takeover of Mainland China in 1949, all foreign missions were forced to leave this country and forbidden from interacting with churches in China. In the 1950s Siông-iū-dòng was affiliated to the TSPM, subordinate to the communist control. During the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), however, even the TSPM was strictly banned, and all church services ceased. On October 28, 1979, Siông-iū-dòng became the first church in Fuzhou to restore religious activities, with its name changed to Flower Lane Church, after the street name of its location.

The main chapel of Flower Lane Church was renovated in 2005.

Reference

• 福州花巷基督教堂简介
• Flower Lane Church in Fuzhou City

External links

• Official Website of Flower Lane Church

Category:Churches in Fuzhou Category:20th-century Methodist church buildings Category:Religious organizations established in 1915

zh:尚友堂