History of the Presbyterian Church in Chinatown, San Francisco

The Presbyterian Church in Chinatown, in partnership with the PANA Institute (Institute for Leadership Development and Study of Pacific and Asian North American Religion) at the Pacific School of Religion and the Bancroft Library at the University of California at Berkeley, is engaged in a Rockefeller-Foundation-funded project to archive primary records from its one hundred fifty years of history. Known as the Historical Documentation Project, this endeavor seeks to assemble a publicly accessible collection of documents available for research purposes that attests to the witness of PCC as the first Asian church in North America.

An exhibit of selected photographs with accompanying text in English and Chinese will open at the Presbyterian Church in Chinatown on November 9, 2003 as part of the church?s celebration of its 150th anniversary. The exhibit will be on display at PCC through March 2004. From April through June 2004, the exhibit will hang at the Bade museum at the Pacific School of Religion, 1798 Scenic Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94709.

For more information on the exhibit or on the Historical Documentation Project, please contact the Project Director, Christopher Chua, at (510) 849-8210 or cchua@psr.edu.

PANA - Preserving the History of North America's First Asian American Church