1890-Present
Judson Memorial Baptist Church
Mandalay Burma (Myanmar)
The construction and dedication of the Judson Memorial Baptist Church in Mandalay, Burma, is reported by Maung Shwe Wa in the Burma Baptist Chronicle:
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Adoniram Judson (August 9, 1788) it was decided to build a Judson Memorial Church in Mandalay. The first Rs 3,600 (rupees) of the total cost of Rs. 31,000 was given by an aged Burmese woman of Tavoy, one of the few persons surviving who had been baptized by Dr. Judson. The completed church was dedicated on November 2, 1890, at the time of the annual meeting of the Burma Baptist Mission Convention.[1]
During World War II much of Mandalay was destroyed. The Judson Memorial Church and the adjoining Kelly High School were bombed and burned but are still open and active today.[2] Note the similarities of the present steeple in the photo that match the design of the original steeple destroyed in World War II as depicted in the sketch in Burma Baptist Chronicle.
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[1] Maung Shwe Wa, Burma Baptist Chronicle, edited by Genevieve and Erville Sowards (Rangoon: Board of Publications, Burma Baptist Convention, 1963) pp. 277-278, 292.
[2] Ibid., p. 278. See picture on right on p. 262.