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Sachsen Onkel

April 19, 2017

The church was built in 1906.

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Bumble-Bee

December 15, 2019

Designed by English architect William Doyle, and built by French Jesuits between 1906 and 1910,[2] it is said to have once been known as "the grandest church in the Far East." It can accommodate 2,500 worshippers at the same time.[1]

In 1960, after the Communist takeover of Shanghai and the arrest and imprisonment of the leaders of the Shanghai Diocese, the cathedra of the Bishop of Shanghai was moved from the older but smaller Cathedral of St Francis Xavier at Dongjiadu to St Ignatius, and Zikawei became the headquarters of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Shanghai. Ignatius Kung Pin-Mei, Bishop of Shanghai, had been arrested in 1955 and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1960, so the move to Zikawei occurred under Aloysius Zhang Jiashu, the Bishop of Shanghai according to the Chinese government-approved "Catholic" church.

In 1966, at the opening of the Cultural Revolution, Red Guards from Beijing vandalized the cathedral, tearing down its spires and ceiling, and smashing its roughly 300 square meters of stained glass. Red Guards also beat up priests and nuns at the church. Powerless to resist, Bishop Aloysius Zhang Jiashu knelt at the altar and prayed until he was dragged away - for the duration of the Cultural Revolution, he was "sent down" for labour, repairing umbrellas and washing bottles. For the next ten years the Cathedral served as a state-owned grain warehouse.[3]

In 1978 the cathedral was re-opened, and the spires were restored in the early 1980s.[3]

In 1989, the first-ever Chinese language Mass was celebrated in St. Ignatius by order of Bishop Aloysius Jin Luxian.[3] The celebrants were Father Thomas Law of Hong Kong, Father Joseph Zen of Hong Kong (later named bishop and Cardinal of Hong Kong), and Father Edward Malatesta, S.J., of San Francisco.

(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Ignatius_Cathedral)

Gordon

December 28, 2022

Moore Memorial Church, also known as Mu'en Church, was completed in 1931. It was designed by the Hungarian architect Ladislaus Hudec. It is a standout red-brick Christian edifice east of People’s Square on Xizang Road. It was used as a headquarters of the Japanese military police during WW2, and became a high school during the Cultural Revolution. It was reverted back to a church in 1979.

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