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The Hong Kong China Temple was built in 1996 and is located at 2 Cornwall Street, Kowloon Tong. When it was completed it served also as a meetinghouse for a local congregation. The offices of the China Hong Kong Mission were also located in the building, as were living quarters for the temple president, mission president, and others. In 2005 ...
The Hong Kong mission, with 9 missionaries and 14 Chinese converts, closed on February 6, 1951. [5] In 1956, missionary activities returned in Hong Kong and were initiated in Taiwan. [5] Since then, the church has experienced "stable and moderate growth" in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macao. [2]: 44
The Hong Kong China Temple is on a 0.3-acre site, with a total area of 21,744 square feet (2,020.1 m 2). It is located at the heart of the Asia continent, in the Kowloon Tong neighborhood of Hong Kong. [9] [7]
Missionaries have preached in Hong Kong, and Macau; 1 Feb 1834 Orson Pratt came to China and held meetings; [7] Missionaries also called 28 August 1852 to China by Brigham Young; [8] 7–8 March 1853, 109 Elders called to various missions among them China. [9] Additionally, LDS missionaries are currently not preaching in a number of countries ...
Amid the escalating tensions in East Asia, including the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests and the subsequent U.S.-China cold war, as well as the implementation of the "Coast Guard Law []," [6] which explicitly grants the China Coast Guard the authority to use weapons, this phrase has been adopted in Japan.
The church received a lot of attention due to the World Fair. The LDS Church was the only Christian denomination to have its own pavilion at the fair. [63] Ten percent (6,658,532) of the guests who attended the Expo visited the Mormon Pavilion, which was a temporary display that introduced the people of Japan to the LDS Church. [64]
The discontinuance of this mission in 1924 was partly a result of anti-American feeling in Japan due to U.S. policies against Japanese immigration. In 1955, split into the Northern Far East and the Southern Far East, the mission by then had operations in Hong Kong, Taiwan and South Korea as well as Japan.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Taiwan refers to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and its members in Taiwan. Having 62,222 members in 2022, Taiwan has more members of the church than any Country or Territory in the Church's Asia Area.