READING POETRY IN THE OLD CHURCH: SINAN BOOKS POETRY STORE
Jun 01, 2020
5 minutes
interview Yu Ting principal, Wutopia Lab × Kim Yeram
photographed by CreatAR Images
materials provided by Wutopia Lab
Kim Yeram (Kim): The old St. Nicholas Church has been transformed for its new life as Sinan Books. Please detail the church’s historical significance.
Yu Ting (Yu): This former Orthodox Church at no. 16 Gaolan Road is the second in a grouping of outstanding historical buildings in Shanghai. It was built in 1932, but has not been used as church for a long time. Over the past few decades, it was used an office space, factory, warehouse, canteen, residential building, and later a club and restaurant. Finally was abandoned and slowly fell into disrepair. Various traces of the additions and decorations made to this old church over its many different lives have been
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