Wesleyan House Church, Skyscraper Place of Worship Development, Hong Kong Architecture, Images
Wesleyan House Church in Hong Kong
Tower Place of Worship in HK – design by Rocco Design Architects
30 Oct 2019
Wesleyan House Methodist Church
Design: Rocco Design Architects
Location: 271 Queen’s Road East, Wan Chai, Hong Kong

Wesleyan House Methodist Church embraces a challenging site in Wan Chai, Hong Kong. The building both provides a serene sanctuary space for worshippers in this bustling location and enriches the surrounding urban fabric. The project stands on a teardrop-shaped site at the corner of Queen’s Road East ? a major four-lane road, and Kennedy Road. The site itself is tight: as 11,000 sqm of program needs to fit on an 800 sqm plot, the building inevitably needs to go up.
As such, the design creates a vertical church, integrating the sanctuary, chapels, activity halls, social service floors, and pastoral offices into a tower. Wesleyan House building defines its skyline by slanting gently and subtly from the base to the top to project its image as a religious institution.

The resulting skyscraper church offers unique opportunities to create signature spaces for worship. The sky chapel on the top floor of the tower boasts sweeping views of the harbor to the north and the hills to the south, creating a unique space that takes advantage of the beauty of the surroundings. Carefully considered adjacencies optimize church operations. A large congr...