Queen's Christian Church

Queen's Christian Church

Houzaimen Christian Church, sometimes called BaiHuaZhou Christian Church, is one of the eight existing Christian churches in Jinan (Jingsi road church, Houzaimen church, nanshangshan Street Church, yuzhongli church, guanzhaying church, sanlizhuang church, Weidong church, Jinan Changchun Church). It is located in the north of Xishou Road, Houzaimen street, Lixia District, with the number of 105 No. 1, facing qushuiting street in the West and South Bank of BaiHuaZhou in the north, is very quiet under the setting of weeping willows.

brief introduction

Hou Zai men Christian Church

Historical evolution

The church is a European style building, built in 1937, originally belonging to the American Baptist Church (abbreviated as the American Baptist Church), originally a clinic of the church. In 1937, the Japanese army occupied Jinan, and divided Jinan into "commercial port area" and "outer city area". The "commercial port area" is the inner city, and the "outer city area" is Nanguan, Dongguan, Beiguan, etc. Christian believers in the old city went to the church outside the city to worship. When they came out of the city, they had to salute the Japanese who were guarding the city according to the regulations of the Japanese army. The believers found it difficult to accept it psychologically, so the congregation discussed to build a church in the old city. At that time, may, an American believer in Jinan, invested 10000 yuan to buy two houses on the basis of the church clinic and built a chapel. At that time, the chapel was 10 meters wide from east to west and 15 meters long from north to south. After the completion of the church, American Southern Baptist priest John took charge of church affairs.

After the founding of new China and the withdrawal of American priests, Chinese priests took over church affairs. In the second half of 1958, the church stopped meeting because of the United Church. It was reopened in 1964. Until the beginning of the cultural revolution, the church had been holding normal religious activities. During the cultural revolution, the church was forced to close and became an office dormitory. In 1985, the government returned the church property and resumed religious activities on Easter in April 1986. In April 1993, the church transformed the chapel into a two-tier structure, which can accommodate about 600 people. As Houzaimen church is located in the eastern cultural area of Quancheng, it often receives foreign Christian groups who come to Jinan and foreign believers who live in Jinan also come here to gather.

Address: No.105, Houzaimen street, Lixia District, Jinan City

Longitude: 117.0245792305

Latitude: 36.6705549846

Ticket information: free.