The Taipei Theological School is known today as Taiwan Theological College and Seminary. The schoolhouse was originally set up in Tamsui by Dr. George Leslie Mackay in 1882. It was known as the Oxford University College and is located on the campus of the current-day Aletheia University. After Dr. Mackay’s death in the spring of 1914, the school was moved to Shuanglian in Taipei, where Rev. William Gauld designed and built the Taipei Theological School. After the war, the name was changed to its current appellation. However, since the buildings in Shuanglian fell out of use, the school was moved to the top of Yangming Mountain in 1956. The campus in Shuanglian was then sold to the Taiwan Cement Corporation.
This picture shows the two-story, red brick school in Shuanglian. In the top right is Dr. Mackay, with the school’s second principle Rev. Gauld on the left (who was also the school’s designer).
The Taipei Theological School
- NCL Special Collection / Li Dao-yi / Japanese Colonial Period (1895-1945) / 15.9×9.7cm / 《Visual Feast》