Huizhong Church ( zh, s=惠中堂, p=Huìzhōng táng) is a

Protestant Christian Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that follows the theological tenets of the Protestant Reformation, a movement that began seeking to reform the Catholic Church from within in the 16th century against what its followers perceived to b ...

place of worship in Huangpu, Shanghai. Originally founded by the

Seventh Day Baptist Mission Seventh Day Baptist Missionary Society is a Baptist missionary society that was involved in sending workers to countries such as China as far back as the late Qing dynasty.American Presbyterian Mission (1867), p. v-vi It was organized in 1842 by S ...

in 1904, it jointed general Protestant worship in 1958. It collapsed after the

Cultural Revolution The Cultural Revolution, formally known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a sociopolitical movement in the People's Republic of China (PRC) launched by Mao Zedong in 1966, and lasting until his death in 1976. Its stated goal ...

and was rebuilt in 1996.

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The church was founded by Seventh Day Baptist missionaries in 1904, the 30th year of the Guangxu era. In 1958, the church joined the non-denominational joint Protestant worship in Shanghai. At the time, the church was headed by Zhuang Shulian ( zh, s=庄叔廉). During the

(1966–1976), all church activities in Shanghai halted, and

Red Guard Red Guards () were a mass student-led paramilitary social movement mobilized and guided by Chairman Mao Zedong in 1966 through 1967, during the first phase of the Cultural Revolution, which he had instituted.Teiwes According to a Red Guard lead ...

students of took over the church site. The church building collapsed after the Cultural Revolution, and was rebuilt in 1996. The rebuilding completed in 1997. The rebuilt structure has three and a half floors. The first and second floors, which can contain about 500 people, are for worship services. The third floor has an occupancy of 300 people, and can also be used for worship services. In October 2018, the church hosted a half-day bazaar to raise funds for poor and sick children.

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File:HZT plaque.jpg, The plaque designating the church to be a monument under protection File:HZT nave.jpg, The nave of the church File:HZT pew.jpg, The pews of the church feature a

Nestorian cross The Nestorian Cross is associated with the Church of the East. It is composed of a cross similar to the Maltese cross, with four arms of roughly equal length which narrow in width towards the center of the cross. In Eastern Christian art in China, ...

File:HZT window.jpg, The stained glass window of the church

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* * {{cite book, first = Xun, last=Li, script-title=zh:革命造反年代：上海文革運動史稿 I, trans-title=Age of Revolution and Rebel: History of the Cultural Revolution in Shanghai (Book I), isbn = 978-0-19-944168-6, publisher = Oxford University Press, location = Hong Kong, url = https://www.bannedthought.net/China/MaoEra/GPCR/Chinese/TheAgeOfRevolutionAndRebellion-TheShanghaiCulturalRevolution-1-LiXun-Chinese-OCR.pdf, year=2015 Seventh Day Baptists Churches completed in 1904 Churches in Shanghai 1904 establishments in China Three-Self Patriotic Movement 20th-century churches in China