Fw: H-ASIA: Trinity Cathedral Shanghai (re: Boone query)

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From: "Frank Conlon" <conlon@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
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Subject: H-ASIA: Trinity Cathedral Shanghai (re: Boone query)

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> November 11, 2011
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> Trinity Cathedral Shanghai
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> From: Tom Oey <oeytg@yahoo.com>
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> By the way, I don't think Trinity Cathedral in Shanghai is related to
> Episcopal missions in China, but rather it was the Anglican church for the
> expatriate British community in Shanghai. I don't have the impression that
> Boone was buried there, but in the Shanghai Cemetary which I suspect no
> longer exists.
>
> I am not an expert on the history of Shanghai geography, but I think Boone
> founded or was one of the early settlers of the American Concession which
> is Hongkou, to the north of the Bund. There used to a Creek which
> separated the American Concession from the Bund. I have visited Hongkou,
> but the Church of the Saviour no longer exists there. Subsequently I
> believe the American Concession was merged with the British Concession
> which is the now Nanjing Road are (now the main shopping street of
> Shanghai leading from the Bund to the Racetrack, which is now a square
> where the Shanghai Museum is located). The merging of the American and
> British settlements was called the International Settlement.
>
> Most of the Hongkou Episcopal property was sold so that St. John's College
> could be extablished 5 miles to the west in the late 1870s. The Church of
> the Saviour remained there, but it must have been torn down after 1949 as
> were, unfortunately many other historical religious sites such as the
> North Gate Baptist Church, the first Baptist church founded by Southern
> Baptists just outside the North Gate of the original Shanghai city.
>
> There is a museum of old Shanghai in the basement of Pearl Tower in
> Lujiazui, Pudong across the river from the Bund.
>
> Thomas G. Oey, Ph.D., Independent Scholar
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