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Vintage Souvenir Christ Church Melaka Lighter:
$15.00

Vintage Souvenir Christ Church Melaka Lighter

Christ Church, Malacca, is an 18th-centuryDutch-builtAnglicanchurch (originallyDutch Reformed) in the city ofMalacca City,Malaysia. It is the oldest functioningProtestantchurch in Malaysia and is within the jurisdiction of the Lower Central Archdeaconry of theAnglicanDiocese of West Malaysia.[1]

History[edit]Christ Church circa 1905, with its then white exterior

TheDutch conquest of Malaccafrom thePortuguese Empirein 1641 saw the proscription ofRoman Catholicismand the conversion of existing churches toDutch Reformeduse. The oldSt. Paul\'s Churchat the summit of St. Paul Hill was renamed theBovenkerk(Upper Church) and used as the main parish church of the Dutch community.

In 1741, in commemoration of the centenary of the capture of Malacca from the Portuguese, the Dutchburghercommunity decided to build a new church, replacing the agingBovenkerk. The foundation stone was laid by the Malacca-born captain of the Malacca burghers, Abraham de Wind, on behalf of his father, Claas de Wind, a prominent burgher who had been thesecunde(deputy governor) of Malacca. The church was completed 12 years later, in 1753, and replaced theBovenkerkas the primary Dutch Reformed Church in Dutch Malacca.[2][3]

With the signing of theAnglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824, possession of Malacca was transferred to the BritishEast India Companyand in 1838, the church was re-consecrated with the rites of theChurch of EnglandbyDaniel Wilson,Bishop of Calcutta, and renamed Christ Church. The maintenance of the church was taken over by the government of theStraits Settlementsin 1858.[4]