Shamian Christian Church was built by the
Church of England in 1865 for British expatriates. It was located in the Shamian Guangzhou British Concession. After
World War II, the Nationalist Government retracted the concession and handed the church over to the South China Diocese of the
Chung Hua Sheng Kung Hui, or Anglican Church in China. Following the
Chinese Communist Revolution, the local government took custody of the Shamian Christian Church. After the
3rd plenary session of the 11th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party in 1978, a policy of some
religious freedom was implemented. In 1980, the Guangdong Committee of the
Three-Self Patriotic Movement of the Protestant Church and Guangdong Christian Council took over its administration. Services resumed in 1991. ==Parish==