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- Place Types Church
- Address 49th St, Yangon, Myanmar (Burma)
- Coordinate 16.7734032,96.17045
- Website Unknown
- Rating 4
- Compound Code Q5FC+95 Yangon, Myanmar (Burma)
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First built in 1887 (there have clearly been renovations and alterations since), the building was originally an Anglican church called St Philip’s, adjoined by a St Philip’s School. At some point after independence, the church was nationalised. It was leased to the Rangoon Christian Chin Association 100 years after its construction, in 1987, and became today’s Siyin Baptist Church. (The school was fenced off and became Botataung Basic Education High School No. 2.) The church was bought by the association in 2002. In spite of goodwill gestures such as these, Christian groups have had extremely difficult relations with the Burmese authorities. To name but one example connected to this very building, in the early 2000s authorities detained its former pastor, Lian Za Dal, in the infamous Insein Prison after he had been previously warned not to preach to Buddhists.
Today the church has an active community with its own lively Facebook page. Refugee Chin populations in the US and Australia have founded their own Siyin Baptist Churches there.
Good Church
Ancient style building
nice religious place
Old one
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