Inside the courtyard of Flower Lane Church in Fuzhou, Fujian, the words "Holy to the Lord" are written on the saddle wall of an ancient house with a history of more than a hundred years, which used to be the residence of a Ryukyuan king during the Qing Dynasty. In 1915, the Methodist Episcopal Mission purchased the ancient house and established a church within it. In 1938, on the east of the ancient house, a stone house church was built named Siong Iu Dong (now Flower Lane Church), intended for fellowship.
In 1911, Dr. Sun Yat-sen, known as the father of modern China, led the 1911 Revolution (or Xinhai Revolution) that overthrew China’s last imperial dynasty and ended the rule of the feudal autocratic monarchy for more than two thousand years. The Fuzhou Revolutionary Party established the general headquarters of the Fujian Army in this ancient house, carrying out the revolutionary movement to found the Republic of China. After its liberation, listed in the third batch of municipal cultural relics protection units in Fuzhou, this year the old site was included in the first batch of revolutionary cultural relics in the Fujian Province.
A worker of Flower Lane Church Office said that the church had spent more than 1.6 million yuan in 2017 to repair the ancient house, which now has become a place for patriotic education in Fuzhou, in order to retain Sino-Ryukyu relations and to preserve the historical testimony of China’s 1911 Revolution.
- Translated by Abigail Wu
走进福州花巷基督教堂庭院里，尚友堂的西侧古厝马鞍墙上书写的“归耶和华为圣”引人注目，这是一座已有百余年历史的古建筑，原为清末任琉球册封使赵新太史府。。1915年为美以美会购得，传教士艾迪博士在此设立教会，1938年，教会在古厝东侧建起了石厝教堂，以“社交堂会”之意，取名为“尚友堂”。
1911年，孙中山先生领导的辛亥革命，推翻了清王朝的统治，结束了中国一千多年的君主专制制度。福州革命党人积极响应，在这座古厝设立辛亥革命福建军总指挥部，开展革命运动，推翻清政府，建立共和。解放后，旧址被福州市列为第三批市级文物保护单位，今年又被列入福建省第一批革命文物名单。
福州花巷基督教会办公室何静姐妹介绍说，为了保护古厝，也是为保留中琉关系、辛亥革命的历史见证，2017年福州基督教花巷堂斥资160万多元，对该座古厝进行大规模修复，现已成为福州市又一处爱国主义教育的场所。
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福州花堂教堂的这处古厝，曾是辛亥革命福建革命军总指挥部
Inside the courtyard of Flower Lane Church in Fuzhou, Fujian, the words "Holy to the Lord" are written on the saddle wall of an ancient house with a history of more than a hundred years, which used to be the residence of a Ryukyuan king during the Qing Dynasty. In 1915, the Methodist Episcopal Mission purchased the ancient house and established a church within it. In 1938, on the east of the ancient house, a stone house church was built named Siong Iu Dong (now Flower Lane Church), intended for fellowship.
In 1911, Dr. Sun Yat-sen, known as the father of modern China, led the 1911 Revolution (or Xinhai Revolution) that overthrew China’s last imperial dynasty and ended the rule of the feudal autocratic monarchy for more than two thousand years. The Fuzhou Revolutionary Party established the general headquarters of the Fujian Army in this ancient house, carrying out the revolutionary movement to found the Republic of China. After its liberation, listed in the third batch of municipal cultural relics protection units in Fuzhou, this year the old site was included in the first batch of revolutionary cultural relics in the Fujian Province.
A worker of Flower Lane Church Office said that the church had spent more than 1.6 million yuan in 2017 to repair the ancient house, which now has become a place for patriotic education in Fuzhou, in order to retain Sino-Ryukyu relations and to preserve the historical testimony of China’s 1911 Revolution.
- Translated by Abigail Wu
Ancient House Inside Fujian Megachurch: Former Headquarter of Fujian Revolutionary Army of the 1911 Revolution
