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All Saints' Cathedral (Hong Kong)
All Saints' Cathedral () is an Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui, Anglican (Episcopal) church at 11 and 2 (KIL no. 2625), in Mong Kok, Kowloon, Hong Kong. It was founded in Yau Ma Tei in 1891 on All Saints' Day. In 2010, the church was consecrated a cathedral. One of the three Anglican cathedrals in the territory and the ecclesiastical province, it is the seat of the bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Western Kowloon, which covers Kowloon and New Kowloon to the west of the Kowloon–Canton Railway, and western half of the New Territories excluding the Islands District and the island of Ma Wan. The other two cathedrals are St John's Cathedral (Hong Kong), St. John's Cathedral (Diocese of Hong Kong) and the Holy Trinity Church, Hong Kong, Holy Trinity Cathedral (Eastern Kowloon). History The current church building dates from 1928 and is the oldest church in the diocese. In 1922 the church started arranging land on which the church could be built. In 1934, the All Saints' Middle Schoolâ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Hong Kong)., Legally Hong Kong, China in international treaties and organizations. is a Special administrative regions of China, special administrative region of China. With 7.5 million residents in a territory, Hong Kong is the List of countries and dependencies by population density, fourth most densely populated region in the world. Hong Kong was established as a British Hong Kong, colony of the British Empire after the Qing dynasty ceded Hong Kong Island in 1841–1842 as a consequence of losing the First Opium War. The colony expanded to the Kowloon Peninsula in 1860 and was further extended when the United Kingdom obtained a 99-year lease of the New Territories in 1898. Hong Kong was Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, occupied by Empire of Japan, Japan from Battle of Hong Kong, 1941 to Liberation Day (Hong Kong), 1945 during World War II. The territory was Handover of Hong Kong, handed over from the United Kingdom to China in 1997. Hong Kong maintains separate govern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
