近代厦门早期教会建筑(1843年—1900年)

Early Missionary Architecture in Xiamen in Modern Times(1843～1900)

厦门开埠后,随着基督教传入,教会的建造活动也不断展开。教会建造的首批教堂多具有简化的西式教堂建筑特征,或在局部融入闽南传统建筑要素,表现出对地方材料和工匠技术一定的适应性。教会学校、医院等则多为殖民式建筑。19世纪下半叶,早期教会建筑成为近代厦门早期西方建筑移植和传播的重要途径之一,并开始了中西建筑文化交融的早期尝试,直接影响和酝酿着厦门建筑的近代转型。

After its opening to the West in 1843, Christianity and the missionary architecture were being spread to Xiamen. Churches were mostly reduced Western church architecture style, mixing with some regional architectural elements, and showed the adaptability to local materials and construction technology. Missionary schools and hospitals were mostly colonial style. During the period of 1843 to the end of the 19th century, early missionary architecture became one of the important way to transplant and communicate western architecture in Xiamen, and also showed the combination of regional and western architectural culture. It directly influenced and brewed up the transformation of architecture in Xiamen in modern times.