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台中思恩堂

Taichung Grace Church

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Taichung Grace Church (台中思恩堂)
Date Captured
Camera
DC-S5M2
Lens
LUMIX S 20-60mm F3.5-5.6
Aperture
ƒ / 3.5
Shutter Speed
1/60 sec
Focal Length
20.0 mm
ISO
200
Exposure Value
9.5 EV
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A modest church in a corner of Taichung Park.

Established in 1952 with a the name personally inscribed by Chiang Kai-shek. It is located at the northeast corner of Taichung Park (台中公園). The congregation dates to 1949, when the Evangelize China Fellowship (基督教中國佈道會), a Shanghai denomination founded two years earlier, sent Shen Baoluo (沈保羅) to establish its first church in Taiwan; the fellowship has worked mainly in Taiwan and Hong Kong ever since. It first met in a former Japanese church building on Taiping Road before breaking ground here in 1951, holding the dedication service on February 24th, 1952. The walls are red brick and tile laid without steel reinforcement, and a renovation in 2020 opened up the ceiling to find the hinoki roof structure intact.

Taichung Grace Church (台中思恩堂)
Date Captured
Camera
DC-S5M2
Lens
LUMIX S 20-60mm F3.5-5.6
Aperture
ƒ / 4.4
Shutter Speed
1/60 sec
Focal Length
34.0 mm
ISO
100
Exposure Value
10.2 EV
Download
3600 × 2400
The gold characters were written by the late dictator.

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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.