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Photograph of the Main House of the Spanish Augustinians in Shanghai

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The buiding was designed by Abelardo Lafuente and his partner, the American architect G.O. Wootten, with whom Lafuente had began a professional association months before.

The house was located in the American Settlement, in present day Yangshupu Rd. The facade reflects the eclecticism of late 19th century houses from Madrid, which Lafuente knew, such as the building of the Central University in Madrid Francisco Javier Mariategui (1874).

Photograph of the first Dominican church in Taiwan

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One of the first preserved images documenting the presence of Spanish Dominicans in Taiwan. The church of Qianjin 前金 (Kaohsiung), the origin of the present-day cathedral of the Holy Rosary, was inaugurated in May 24, 1863 by priest Andrés…
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