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Dalian Orthodox Church-School

This Russian Church was built in Tsarist Russia Municipal District, Fújiàntái, Dalny.

After the Japanese drove the Russians out of Dalny on May 29, 1904, the Japanese used this building as an officers' hospital and made the city their general base during the Port Arthur campaign.

In 1906, the former temple was occupied by the Dairen First Ordinary and Higher Primary School following the old Meiji system of Japanese education. On March 30, 1908, the school was moved out of the church to the site of the Grand Plaza Small School (present-day 16th Middle School in Dalian).

The church-school building was also offered up to the Japanese Presbyterian Church for use, but it was claimed by the Russians on behalf of their former civilian population, and this claim has not been adjudicated when Rev. J.G. Dunlop was there per his report, Port Arthur and Dalny a year after the War, "The Missionary Review of the World", Vol. 20, No. 2, Feb 1907, pp 96-98

Photographs
 

photo from "Japan's Fight for Freedom",
Vol. 2, June 14, 1904, pg 620

(ca. 1905) The Russian Cathedral at Dalny.,
ca. 1905. Feb 10. [Photograph]
Retrieved from the Library of Congress

postcard from Aichi University
Database of Images from Pre-war
China's postcards

postcard from Teacher Yu Hong

postcard from forum.vgd.ru

View of the Tsarist Russian Municipal District from the present railway station and its northeast side,
the most obvious building in the picture is the spire of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Postcards from Old Dalian 505-Russian Town

Dairen Fushimidai
Normal Higher Primary School.
Substitute school building
established in Meiji 39.
1906 photo from Teacher Yu Hong

Mar. 10, 1906 (Meiji 39)
postcard from streetmarket.ru

postcard from forum.vgd.ru

"The Missionary Review of the
World" (1907), Vol. 30, pg 98

1930s postcard from
Harvard-Yenching Library