Hai-po Church, Presbyterian church in Hunei District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Hai-po Church is a Presbyterian church in Hunei District, Kaohsiung, founded in 1910. Its fourth-generation building, completed in 2003, is used for worship, while the third-generation structure from 1953 is also preserved on the site. The first meeting house was a thatched-roof building seating about 50 people.
Hai-po Church was founded in 1910 as a Presbyterian congregation; its first building was a thatched chapel seating about 50. A second chapel was registered in 1912, and the church became an independent parish in 1937. The third building, begun in 1952 and dedicated in 1953, still stands alongside the fourth, completed in 2003.
The church belongs to the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan, not the Catholic Church. Its name comes from Haipu, the locality in Hunei District where it was founded in 1910. The congregation grew from a small group of local converts and by 1935 counted 346 members. It later founded daughter congregations, including Hunei Holy Church in 1955 and Taiye Presbyterian Church in 1958.
The church stands in Hunei District, Kaohsiung, on the site tied to the 1910 congregation; the fourth-generation building opened in 2003, while the third-generation building is also kept. Visitors should arrange any look inside around Presbyterian services rather than Catholic Mass times.
The third-generation church building, completed in 1953 after a three-year savings plan by the congregation, still stands alongside the fourth-generation building finished in 2003. The congregation held its last service in the older building on 29 June 2003.
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