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St John's Church, Jinze

金泽圣若望堂jīn zé shèng ruò wàng táng

Church inside the Guangqi training centre at Jinze, near the 'Church Bridge'; Jinze had a church by 1917.

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A pink curved-front church building with three brown wooden doors, red lanterns, a small tower with a cross on the roof and strings of coloured flags, under a grey sky.
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The curved pink-rendered church front with a small square tower, hung with coloured flags and red lanterns.

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What you're looking at

  • Brick church and grounds at Jinze, including its square tower.
A bright church interior with a white wall, a central wooden cross, framed pictures, chandeliers and rows of dark wooden pews.
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The nave with wooden pews and a cross and framed pictures on the end wall, seen under chandeliers.

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A pink brick tower with a cross, beside a curved pink building with three narrow stained glass windows behind a railing.
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The square tower beside the curved front, with three stained-glass windows in the lower wall.

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A polished black granite gatepost with gold Chinese characters, beside an open iron gate.
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A black stone gate pillar carries a gold Chinese inscription naming a Shanghai diocese training centre.

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A grey stone block bearing white Chinese characters at a roadside, with a pink tower behind trees and wires.
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A stone marker beside the road, with the characters for 'Church Bridge', and the tower beyond.

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A pink-brown tower with a cross above trees beside a river under a grey sky.
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The tower rising over trees on the canal bank.

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The story

Signs at the church, in full (2)

The wording of plaques and notices as photographed. Timetables and rules may have changed since.

Guangqi Training Centre entrance inscription

光启培训中心门牌 · see the photo

English printed on the sign

GUANGQI SPIRITUAL CENTER

Our translation of the Chinese

Catholic Diocese of Shanghai
Guangqi Training Centre

[Building in the background]
Guangqi Training Centre
[Small inscription below: illegible]

Chinese text

天主教上海教区
光启培训中心

[后方建筑]
光启培训中心
[落款小字：辨读不清]

Church Bridge and the inscription on the Jinze church tower

教堂桥与金泽教堂塔楼题字 · see the photo

Our translation of the Chinese

Church Bridge (Jiaotang Qiao)
Catholic Church

Chinese text

教堂桥
天主堂

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How to visit

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Chinese address — show this to a taxi driver

金泽镇培爱路181号光启培训中心内

Within Guangqi Training Center, 181 Peiai Road, Jinze Town, Qingpu District, Shanghai

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Sources

  1. 1.Qingpu County Gazetteer, Catholicism (青浦县志 · 天主教), Shanghai Local Chronicles Office — 表33-1; 天主教gazetteer
  2. 2.Photographs of Shanghai churches and their signs, by 中二halo君 (上海教堂实拍照片（中二halo君）), 中二halo君, 中二halo君, 2026 — sign photographed at the churchfieldwork

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