St. John's Cathedral, Hong Kong (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles St. John's Cathedral, officially The Cathedral Church of St. John the Evangelist and located at 4 Garden Road, Central, is an Anglican cathedral in Hong Kong. It is the Diocesan cathedral of the Diocese of Hong Kong Island and the focus of the Province of Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui. It also houses the seat of the Archbishop of Hong Kong. The Anglican cathedral is one of the three cathedrals in the city, the others being SKH Eastern Kowloon dioscean cathedral of Holy Trinity, Kowloon City, and the Roman Catholic Immaculate Conception Cathedral. St. John's Cathedral is the oldest surviving Western ecclesiastical building in Hong Kong, and the oldest Anglican church in the Far East, opening for service on Sunday, 11th March, 1849. It was declared a monument in 1996. It is notable that the Cathedral is located at the centre of Powers of Hong Kong as it is surrounded by the Bank of China Tower, HSBC Building (economic), Legislative Council Building (legislative), Central Government Offices (executive) and the Court of Final Appeal (judicial).