In 1894, a group of Church Missionary Society (CMS) missionaries led by the Rev. James Heywood Horsburgh introduced Anglicanism into a small town known as Zhongba [zh] (formerly romanised as Chungpa) under the administration of Jiangyou.[3] They established churches and mission stations across western Sichuan,[2] Chungpa Church was the first church building in the province founded by the CMS.[4]
After the communist takeover of China in 1949, Christian Churches in China were forced to sever their ties with respective overseas Churches, which has thus led to the merging of Gospel Church into the communist-established Three-Self Patriotic Church.[5]
During the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, the church was damaged beyond repair. A new Gospel Church was built at the junction of Fujiang Road and Qingxin Alley, completed in an entirely neo-Gothic style.[2]
^Li, Zhen (31 March 2017). "四川江油福音堂同工走访成都新津县、崇州市教会" [Visitation of the Members of Jiangyou Gospel Church to Churches at Xinjin County and Chongzhou City]. gospeltimes.cn (in Simplified Chinese). Archived from the original on 17 May 2021. Retrieved 18 May 2021.
^ abcXie, Congdao (7 May 2013). "汶川地震五周年 江油教会仍未安定" [Five Years after the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake, the Church in Jiangyou is Still Under Construction]. gospeltimes.cn (in Simplified Chinese). Archived from the original on 17 May 2021. Retrieved 18 May 2021.
^China Continuation Committee, ed. (1915). 中華基督教會年鑑 [The China Church Year Book] (PDF) (in Traditional Chinese). Shanghai: The Commercial Press. p. 114.
^Ferris, Helen (1956). The Christian Church in Communist China, to 1952. Montgomery, AL: Air Force Personnel and Training Research Center. p. 8. OCLC5542137.
