ICC Note: Chinese authorities have converted a 100 year old Protestant church in Hubei province into a shopping mall with incomplete documents. The Trinity Protestant Church was originally built in 1910 and destroyed by the Chinese government in 2013 for being considered a “dangerous building”. The Protestant church had been one of the last three churches in Wuhan to have a blend of Chinese and western architecture. Due to incomplete documentation, the shopping mall’s fate will be re-evaluated by local officials.
10/01/2015 Beijing (One India) – A century-old Protestant church in China’s Hubei province has been converted into a shopping mall and opened for business with incomplete official documents, the media reported on Tuesday. The Dacheng shopping mall in Wuhan city began a test run on September 26, after its predecessor, the Trinity Protestant Church, which was built in 1910, was demolished in 2013 as a “dangerous building”, the Global Times reported.
