Jinan Presbyterian Church

A Gothic Revival church on Jinan Road designed by Ide Kaoru (井手薰) and completed in 1916 for the Japanese Christian community in Taipei. It was originally known as Saiwai-chō Church (幸町教會). During the final years of colonial rule, the building served as the de facto seat of the Japanese Christian Taiwan Church Union (日本基督教臺灣教團), a wartime body that forcibly merged all Protestant denominations under state control. After 1945 it was transferred to the Taiwan Presbyterian Church. In the 1970s, KMT-aligned Christians proposed demolishing the church to build a “Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Chapel” on the site, a plan that was ultimately vetoed by President Lee Teng-hui, who instead had it designated a municipal monument in 1998.