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Title
Erection of Shenyang Church, China, 1889
Date Created and/or Issued
1889
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Rights Information
For commercial reproduction please contact the National Library of Scotland by referring to http://www.nls.uk/copyright . For access to the originals please e-mail manuscripts@nls.uk
National Library of Scotland
National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, EH1 1EW, Scotland, UK
The National Library of Scotland license the use of this content under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 UK: Scotland License.
manuscripts@nls.uk
Description
“Scaffolding during erection of new Church at Moukden [Shenyang]”. Exterior view of bamboo scaffolding surrounding the construction of a mission Church at Shenyang [Moukden], the ancient capital of Manchuria. This is probably the original Dongguan Church. Workers stand at the top of the construction. ❧ The United Presbyterian Mission in Manchuria had been expanded by John Ross (1842-1915) when he entered the region in 1872. Shenyang became an important station in the interior and Hospitals, Schools and Orphanages were built there. The United Presbyterian Mission unified with the Irish Presbyterian Mission in 1890 to form an indigenous Presbytery, named Kuan Tung, with Chinese as the official language. ❧ The image is from an album relating to the Rev. James A Whylie (1863-1894) who was ordained to the Manchuria mission in 1887 and based in Liaoyang, 1888-1894. He did much itinerant work and built upon the work of Old Wang who had been the ‘native evangelist’ in Liaoyang until his death in 1885. When the first Sino Japanese War (1894-1895) broke out troops were being gathered to send to Korea and suspicion of foreigners was heightened. In Liaoyang, on the 10 August 1894, a group of Chinese soldiers wrecked the U.P. chapel and attacked Mr Whylie, who died of his wounds several days later. Missionaries and foreigners then sought refuge in the port of Newchwang where many remained until the war ended the following year.
Type
image
Format
Photographic prints, 9.2 x 14.2 cm.
Identifier
impa-a-nls-75653644-1.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-79428
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/impa-a-nls-75653644-1.jpg
Subject
Ross, John, 1842-1915
Buildings (structures)
Mission churches
Scaffolds
Workers
Time Period
1889
Place
Asia
China
Liaoning
Shenyang
Source
Acc.7548/F/17 [Reference number]
NLS DOD ID: 75653642 [File]
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Newspaper Cuttings Album, Photographs and cuttings relating to Rev. James A Wylie, Liaoyang, China, 1888-1894
Photographs from Scottish Missions, the National Library of Scotland
image/tiff

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