Wutai Presbyterian Church

This place of worship, just beyond the lower end of Yanban Lane, is a church of unique beauty in one of the most majestic settings such places exist. Powerful mountains fill your photo backdrops. Deliberately, the castle-like church, built by a famed indigenous artist in 1966, is raised high above other surrounding village buildings on a base faced by massive stone blocks and seems to float just below heaven.

Complementing the traditional Christian motifs such as two sizeable sculptures of angels playing cornets on the roof are a plentitude of idiosyncratic Rukai cultural expressions. On the roof and behind the altar are two tall, thick cypress crosses. Atop a stone-block tower beside the church is a towering sculpture of a warrior-chief in ceremonial dress, church bell in hand, calling people to worship – and “calling out to you in welcome.”

WUTAI PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH ( 基督長老教會霧台教會 ) (08) 790-2204

No. 76, Zhongshan Lane, Neighborhood 9, Wutai Village, Wutai Township, Pingtung County ( 屏東縣霧臺鄉霧台村 9 鄰中山巷 76 號 ) www.facebook.com/vedai.kiwkai