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Doumen Old Street (Doumen Jiujie)

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Doumen Old Street (Doumen Jiujie)

Doumen Old Street (Doumen Jiujie)

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    February 16, 2024

    It is about a 40 minute drive from Zhuhai (Gongbei), but this old street is very different from the typical old village or town - and this is because it was designed by a Canadian priest.

    Quoting from a 2016 China Daily article:

    Doumen Old Street was constructed at the turn of the 19th century into the 20th, and was designed by the Rev John Galloway, a priest and architect from Canada, and his team. With both Chinese and Western architectural features, the street incorporated silk, household product and forest product stores, grain shops, general banks, pawnshops, and a church. It became a logistics center for goods on the south bank of the Pearl River Delta as well as an entrepot for overseas remittances and financial businesses.


    In 2013, the street was designated a “Historical and Cultural Street in China”.

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      Distance 136 m

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