Designed and funded by German Dominican priest Elmar Bohmann (貝滿神父) in 1965, this small Catholic chapel in Xinpi was built by Dachen islanders resettled at Yuhuan New Village and Makatao Indigenous sugarcane farmers from the adjacent Wanlong Farm. Its cobblestone walls, gathered from the nearby Laiyi River, and cross-shaped wall openings are an iconic sight along this stretch of Provincial Highway 185 (沿山公路). Abandoned for three decades after the collapse of the local sugar industry, the chapel was listed as a county historic building in 2016, subsequently restored, and rededicated on Easter Sunday 2017.
Map
Heritage Status
- Historic Building (歷史建築)
Links
- Wikipedia in Chinese (中文維基百科)
- Cultural Assets Bureau (文化部文化資產局)
Themes
- Christianity in Taiwan (臺灣基督教)
- Modernist Architecture in Taiwan (台灣現代主義建築)
Connections
- Jiukuaicuo Catholic Church (潮州九塊厝天主堂)
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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.