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Built in the late 1950s, this unusual modernist church has become a local landmark. Several peaked structures on site were designed to resemble haystacks at autumn harvest time. It was severely damaged by Typhoon Danas in 2025.
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Links
- Wikipedia in Chinese (中文維基百科)
Themes
- Christianity in Taiwan (臺灣基督教)
- Modernist Architecture in Taiwan (台灣現代主義建築)
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Alexander Synaptic
Curator, Spectral Codex
I am a web application developer, photojournalist, urban explorer, and history enthusiast passionate about the open web and documenting my experiences on this planet. This project was founded in the early 2010s and has evolved into a sort of personal Wikipedia of places that interest me (and often the photographs I’ve taken there). I’m originally from Toronto, Canada, but spend most of my time residing in Taiwan.