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St Stephens Church 2nd Generation

Submitted by Herostratus on Wed, 2016-11-02 13:42
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1920
Places shown in this photo: 
St. Stephen's Church - 2nd generation [1892-????]

St. Stephen's Church - 3rd generation [1965- ]

Submitted by Herostratus on Wed, 2016-11-02 13:14
Date Place completed: 
1965-06-05

In 1963, both the Church and the Annex were demolished. The 3rd generation St. Stephen's Church was built on the old site of the Annex, and St. Stephen's Church College was built on the old site of the Church, both opening in 1965

Source here

Previous place(s) at this location: 
Church Mission House [????-c.1945]
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Union Church (4th & current generation) [1949- ]

Submitted by David on Mon, 2016-08-15 19:00
Date Place completed: 
c.1949-01-01 (Month, Day are approximate)

Built on the site of the previous Union Church, which was demolished during the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong.

The Church website gives the completion dates of the current buildings:

The church building 'disappeared' during World War 2 and has been rebuilt over time, with the Fellowship Hall in 1949, the Sanctuary in 1955 and the Annex in 1970.

Previous place(s) at this location: 
Union Church (3rd generation) [1891-c.1944]
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View towards the Peak from Central

Submitted by Herostratus on Thu, 2016-06-02 15:21
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1860
Places shown in this photo: 
St John's Cathedral [1849- ]
Former French Mission Building, 1 Battery Path [1919- ]
Government House (1st generation) [1855-1942]
The Albany [1844-1935]
HSBC Manager's House and Sub-Manager's House - IL 580 [1861-1935]

View in Hong-Kong - The Episcopal Church - The Goverment Palace and Hurd & Co.'s American Mercantile House - The Plaza in Foreground 

London Missionary Society Chapel and Nethersole Dispensary [c.1862-c.1895]

Submitted by Herostratus on Thu, 2016-05-26 12:13
Date Place completed: 
c.1862-01-01 (Year, Month, Day are approximate)
Date Place demolished: 
c.1895-01-01 (Year, Month, Day are approximate)

The original site of the Nethersole Dispensary is located inside Blake Garden, near the exit to Upper Station Street. It occupied the ground floor of the Taipingshan Chapel of the London Missionary Society at 2 Station Street (now Po Yee Street). 

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London Missionary Society
tai ping shan

James LEGGE [1815-1897]

Submitted by Herostratus on Tue, 2016-05-24 14:50
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Legge
Given: 
James
Birth
Date: 
c.1815-01-01 (Month, Day are approximate)
Death
Date: 
c.1897-01-01 (Month, Day are approximate)

James Legge graduated from Aberdeen University in 1836 and joined the London Missionary Society two years after. He was sent to Malacca in 1840 where he assumed the post of principal of the Anglo-Chinese college founded by Robert Morrison. When the school moved to Hong Kong in1843, Legge remained as Principal. He was a great Sinologue and was famous for his translation and annotation of the Chinese classics. He was a prominent resident of Hong Kong as he was an all round man: Scholar, missionary, minister, chaplain and Educationist.

Birthplace (country): 
United Kingdom
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Legge
London Missionary Society
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Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, Tai Po [1961- ]

Submitted by David on Tue, 2016-05-10 09:45
Date Place completed: 
1961-06-11

Opened in 1961:

Bishop Lorenzo Bianchi celebrated the consecration of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Church in Tai Po on 11.6.1961.  Rev. Narciso Santinon of PIME was appointed the first rector.  To pay tribute to the Holy Mother, the church was thus named as the Immaculate Heart of Mary Church.

http://www.catholicheritage.org.hk/en/catholic_building/immaculate_heart...

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Pentecostal Tabernacle, 11 Seymour Road [????- ]

Submitted by David on Thu, 2016-01-28 15:11
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