All Saints' Cathedral () is an Anglican (Episcopal) church at 11 and 2 (KIL no. 2625), in

Mong Kok Mong Kok (Chinese language, Chinese: 旺角), also spelled Mongkok, often abbreviated as MK, is an area in Kowloon, Hong Kong. The Prince Edward, Hong Kong, Prince Edward subarea occupies the northern part of Mong Kok. As one of the major sho ...

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Hong Kong Hong Kong)., Legally Hong Kong, China in international treaties and organizations. is a special administrative region of China. With 7.5 million residents in a territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the wor ...

. It was founded in

Yau Ma Tei Yau Ma Tei is an area in the Yau Tsim Mong District in the south of the Kowloon Peninsula in Hong Kong. Name ''Yau Ma Tei'' is a phonetic transliteration of the name (originally written as ) in Cantonese. It can also be spelt as Yaumatei, Y ...

in 1891 on

All Saints' Day All Saints' Day, also known as All Hallows' Day, the Feast of All Saints, the Feast of All Hallows, the Solemnity of All Saints, and Hallowmas, is a Christian solemnity celebrated in honour of all the saints of the Church, whether they are know ...

. 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 The Diocese of Western Kowloon is one of the three dioceses under the Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui. Its territory covers most of western Kowloon and the western New Territories (excluding the outlying islands of Hong Kong). All Saints' Church, then c ...

, 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 (Diocese of Hong Kong) and the 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 School [ yue] was built next to the church to provide education for local children and to use as a centre for evangelism work. During the

Japanese occupation of Hong Kong The Japanese occupation of Hong Kong began when the governor of Hong Kong, Mark Aitchison Young, surrendered the British Crown colony of British Hong Kong, Hong Kong to the Empire of Japan on 25 December 1941. His surrender occurred after Batt ...

in 1941 to 1945, the church was confiscated by the Japanese. After the Second World War, the church building was allowed to be used by believers again. In 1951, two more school buildings were built next to the church. Since 1961, the school complex has included a playgroup, a primary school and a secondary school.

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