Emmanuel (Mission) Church [????-????] | Gwulo: Old Hong Kong

Emmanuel (Mission) Church [????-????]

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Submitted by moddsey on Sat, 2021-10-09 13:37
Current condition: 
Demolished / No longer exists

Address: 218 Nathan Road. Rented four ground shop spaces. Vacated the building in 1978. See history of the Church here

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1935

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Submitted by David on Thu, 2021-10-14 13:56.

Notes from Moddsey's link above:

The Emmanuel Church was founded by Dr. and & Mrs. Lechmere Clift of the U.K., who had served with the Church Missionary Society in China in the early 1920’s, developing the Emmanuel Medical Mission there. In 1929 they came to Hong Kong and began a ministry in this place.

Before long they rented four ground floor shop spaces on Nathan Road. One space was used as a Chapel, and another for the Fraternity Book Room, later renamed to Emmanuel English Bookroom, which became a well-known evangelical English book-store in Kowloon. This book room continued until the building was demolished in 1978.