Modern Chinese Missionary Architecture: A Case Study of Church in Fuzhou

As the earliest church of The Methodist Episcopal Church (Methodist) in East Asia, the Church of True God reflects the history of modern architectural development and the Sino-Western cultural community in Fuzhou. The modern missionary architecture is typical of combining Chinese and Western architectural cultures in Fuzhou. Under the combined influence of social culture and regional factors, the church inevitably exhibits both Western architectural styles and regional architectural characteristics. The author has analysed the missionary architecture in Fuzhou and its architectural style through literature and archival research. This article attempts to identify the similarities and differences between modern missionary architecture in Fuzhou and the West of the same period and explore the localisation process of the foreign architectural culture it reflected.