Flower Lane Church, Fuzhou City.

An Amazing Foochow Church at Flower Lane.

The Church is located at Flower Lane, No. 7, East Stree Crossroads or Dongjiekou, the most prosperous commercial area of Gulou District, Fuzhou. It is the first Methodist Church building within the walled city of Fuzhou.

Built in 1863 by the American Methodist Episcopal Mission in Fuzhou.

The chapel was deomolished by a mob in 1864.

60 years later, the MEM decided to build another church.

In 1915, Rev. John Gowdy (then superintendent of the Methodist Episcopal Mission) and Rev. Yu Xingli (余兴礼, a Chinese Methodist pastor) purchased on East Street what used to be the mansion of a Ryukyuan king in Qing Dynasty and rebuilt it into a city institutional church named Central Institutional Church or Siong Iu Dong (尚友堂, Foochow Romanized: Siông-iū-dòng, lit. "church for social intercourse"). The first baptism was held on September 5 of the same year.

 In 1938 the building was subsequently reconstructed under charge of Rev. Xu Rongfan (许荣藩) into a large granite chapel capable of holding a congregation of some 1000 people. (Source : Wikipedia)

this church was renovated in 2005.