賠償教會
Compansated Churches

1884至1885年中法戰爭期間，台灣民眾因仇外情緒，燒毀了馬偕蓋的教堂。後來劉銘傳以墨西哥銀一萬兩賠償，馬偕用賠償金重蓋了7間被破壞的教堂。賠償教堂由馬偕設計，牆體為土埆及磚，屋頂用西式桁架鋪台灣瓦。教堂附有高聳的五級尖塔，裝飾不同象徵圖案，如東西半球、焚而不毀和蠟燭等。當時興建「賠償教堂」參見：和尚洲（今台北蘆洲，1883年建）、八里坌（今台北八里，1884年建）、錫口（今台北松山，1884年建）、新店（1884年建）、枋隙（台北大龍峒，1885年建）、和艋舺（今台北萬華，1889年建）。

 

During the Chinese-French war between 1884 and 1885, the Taiwanese people were hostile towards all foreigners and burned down the churches Mackay had built. Later, Lui Mingchaun compansated him with ten thousand liang (a unit of weight equal to 50 g) of Mexican money in silver, and Mackay rebuilt seven destroyed churches with the money. In Mackay’s design for these churches, the walls were made of clay (called earth brick) and bricks, the roofs were western beams covered by Taiwanese roof tiles, topped with five-tiered steeples, and decorated with different symbolic patterns, such as the eastern and western hemispheres, burning bushes, candles and so on. These “compansated churches” are the following: Heshangjiu (currently located at Taipei Lujiu, built in 1883), Baliben (currently located at Taipei Bali, built in 1884), Xikou (currently located at Taipei Songshan, built in 1884), Xindian (built in 1884), Fangxi (currently located at Taipei Dalongdong, built in 1885), and Mengjia (currently located at Taipei Wanhua, built in 1889).