| Gospel Church, Guanghan | |
| Other Name: | Grace Church |
| Native Name: | 福音堂 |
| Native Name Lang: | zh-hant |
| Location: | Guanghan, Deyang, Sichuan |
| Country: | China |
| Denomination: | Three-Self Church (Protestant) |
| Previous Denomination: | Anglican |
| Churchmanship: | Low church evangelical |
| Founded Date: | 1902 |
| Founder: | Church Missionary Society |
| Past Bishop: | William Cassels |
| Pastor: | Guangyu Yu[1] |
| Status: | Church |
| Functional Status: | Active |
Gospel Church is a Protestant church situated on Dabei Upper Street, in the county-level city of Guanghan, Deyang, Sichuan Province. Founded in 1902, it was formerly an Anglican church in the West Szechwan Diocese of the Church in China. It has been subjected to the control of the state-sanctioned Three-Self Patriotic Church since 1954. In 2003, a new church was built on Shuyuan Street, and renamed Grace Church.[2]
Gospel Church was founded by a Church of England pastor in 1902, belonging to the Diocese of West Szechwan. It is built in local architectural style, with a pseudo-Gothic door topped by a cross.
In 1929, Vyvyan Donnithorne, a member of the Church Missionary Society, together with his wife, arrived in Guanghan (then known as Hanchow). He served as pastor of the Gospel Church until 1949, before being transferred to the Canary Islands, Spain.[3] During his stay in Hanchow, he became a member of the West China Border Research Society, and one of the key figures in the discovery of the archaeological site now known as Sanxingdui.[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.
Consecration of a new church took place in 2003. Unlike the original church, the new building was designed in an entirely Modernist style.