You can find a building with granite exterior walls on Dyer Avenue. It is the St. Mary’s Church that has stood in Hung Hom for sixty years.
In the 1950s, a large number of refugees fled to Hong Kong from the mainland. Bishop Bianchi, who came to Hong Kong with the refugees, learned that many refugees settled around Tai Wan Shan in Hung Hom. In 1959, he built the church on the only road leading to Tai Wan Shan, which is the current St. Mary’s Church. Despite its mere 60-year history, St. Mary’s Church has a unique aspect: in the 1980s, Father Peter Leung began placing ancestral tablets of parishioners in the church, embracing the traditional Chinese value of filial piety. This practice was quite progressive!
