St. John's Cathedral 5.1

The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Evangelist is the oldest Anglican church in the Far East. It serves as the cathedral of the Diocese of Hong Kong Island and mother church to the Province of Hong Kong and Macao. It is the seat of the Archbishop of Hong Kong.At Garden Road, Central, the Cathedral is located at the centre of the "Powers of Hong Kong" and is therefore surrounded by the Bank of China Tower, HSBC Building (economic), Legislative Council Building (legislative), Former Central Government Offices (executive) and the Court of Final Appeal (judicial).St John's Cathedral is one of the five cathedrals in Hong Kong. The others are SKH Holy Trinity Cathedral, SKH Cathedral of All Saints, Orthodox St Luke's Cathedral and Catholic Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception.HistorySt John's Cathedral held its first Sunday service on Sunday, 11 March 1849.On the morning of 8 December 1941, the day after their attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese attacked Hong Kong. On Christmas morning 1941 the Reverend Alaric P. Rose took the morning service in St John's with a congregation of one hundred, while shelling continued on the island.