Bridges Street Market
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Bridges Street Market (Chinese: 必列啫士街街市) is located at No. 2 Bridges Street, at the corner of Shing Wong Street, in Sheung Wan, Hong Kong. It is a Bauhaus style market building, originally opened in 1953,[1] and scheduled to be renovated and open in 2018 as a news museum.[2][3]
History
Bridges Street Market was partly built on the site of the former American Congregational Mission Preaching House at which Dr. Sun Yat-Sen was baptised into Christianity in 1883.[4][5]
Conservation
Bridges Street Market is part of the Central and Western Heritage Trail and the Dr Sun Yat-sen Historical Trail. It was listed as a Grade III historic building in 2011.[6]
See also
References
- ^ Antiquities and Monuments Office: Historic Building Appraisal, Bridges Street Market Archived 22 July 2015 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ 必列啫士街市「包浩斯」活化重生 The Sun. 27 April 2011. (in Chinese)
- ^ Chou, Oliver (22 August 2016). "Hong Kong's news museum will show history as it happened". South China Morning Post.
- ^ Bridges Street Market – 2 Bridges Street, Central[permanent dead link] Film Services Office. Retrieved 23 September 2011.
- ^ Antiquities and Monuments Office: Original Site of the American Congregational Mission Preaching House, 2 Bridges Street Archived 23 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ New items in addition to 1,444 historic buildings already assessed Archived 15 November 2017 at the Wayback Machine (as of 18 April 2016)
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