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The Beizhengjie Christ Church is a 20th-century typical gothic church. It is located in the Huangxing North Road of Changsha, Hunan province, China. ==History== It was built in 1905 by the Protestant Episcopal Church Mission and formerly called Trinity Church under the Church of China, it was designed by the bishop Dr. Alfred A. Gilman, and built of big blocks of rough granite. It was ruined in 1910. The rebuilding began in 1911 and ended completely in 1915. During the Xinhai Revolution, General Huang Xing took refuge here, he wrote "To worship Holy Christ, we must be devout. To save the world, he lived among the low." ()〔(黄吉亭与基督教堂 ). Changsha News. 2011-02-21. 〕 After the founding of PRC in 1949, it was taken as the match storage of Changsha Department Store Company and then as the celebration center of Hunan Finance Company. In 2002, it was listed as a "Historical and Cultural Sites Protected at the Provincial Level" by the Hunan government. On December 20, 2004, it again opened to pilgrim.〔(长沙市北正街基督教堂简介 ) 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Beizhengjie Christ Church」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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