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All Saints Church

诸圣堂Zhūshèng Táng

A red-brick Anglican church of 1925 on Fuxing Middle Road, described as Shanghai's only surviving Neo-Romanesque church and still used for worship.

Built
1925
Architect
Not recorded
Style
neo-romanesque
Heritage listing
Shanghai Featured Historical Building (优秀历史建筑) · municipal
Status
Exterior only
Then in
French Concession1914–1943
All Saints Church on a street corner, with its brick bell tower and red boundary wall.

All Saints Church.

Photo: Fayhoo (resized) · CC BY-SA 3.0
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What you're looking at

  • The round rose window above the entrance porch.
  • Three arched doorways separated by Corinthian columns.
  • The square tower at the north-west corner.
  • The red-brick basilica form with a gabled roof.
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The story

All Saints Church (诸圣堂, Zhūshèng Táng) stands at the corner of Fuxing Middle Road and Danshui Road, in what was the French Concession. It was founded as an Anglican church in 1925 and is now a Protestant church that still holds services. English Wikipedia calls it the only surviving Neo-Romanesque church in Shanghai.

The American Episcopal missionary Cameron Farquhar McRae bought a house in the concession as a preaching station in 1915. Bishop Frederick Graves bought the present site in 1919. McRae and Wang Xiaokui (汪孝奎) planned the church, which was consecrated on Christmas Day 1925 under the Chung Hua Sheng Kung Hui, the Anglican Church in China. Two bishops were consecrated here: Chen Yong’en in 1927 and Shen Zigao in 1934. Shen is described as the first Chinese diocesan bishop in the Anglican church.

The church is built of red brick in the form of a basilica, in the Anglican high-church style. Over the entrance is a narthex with three arched doorways separated by Corinthian columns, and above it a round rose window. A square tower rises at the north-west corner. Inside, a nave and two aisles sit under a roof carried on five timber frames. The site covers 1,326 square metres. The main sanctuary seats about 500 people, and the chapels and annex bring the total to around 1,000.

In 1958 it became the joint-worship church for Luwan District, then closed in the Cultural Revolution. English Wikipedia dates its reopening to 1982, and a monthly service for blind worshippers has run since 1985. It was renovated in 2009 and 2014; the 2014 work set the interior back toward its 1925 look, using an early photograph found in 2011. It is a listed Shanghai Featured Historical Building.

It is an active place of worship, and no official page for visiting hours was found. Check access on arrival.

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How to visit

Status
Exterior only
Opening times and prices not yet confirmed; check before you go.
Nearest metro
Site of the First CPC National Congress·Xintiandi一大会址·新天地Line 10Line 13Exit 5· 1 min walkMetro and walking details are automatic and not yet checked on the ground.Plan a metro journey here →

Chinese address — show this to a taxi driver

上海市黄浦区复兴中路425号

425 Fuxing Middle Road, Huangpu District

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Nearby

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Within a 10-minute walk

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Sources

  1. 1.Chinese Wikipedia (article given in each fact's locator) (中文维基百科), Wikimedia Foundation — https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/诸圣堂_(上海)wikipedia
  2. 2.English Wikipedia (article given in each fact's locator) (English Wikipedia), Wikimedia Foundation — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Saints_Church,_Shanghai; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Saints_Church,_Shanghai#History; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Saints_Church,_Shanghai#Architecturewikipedia

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