Entrance to St Joseph's Church
A date plate at the corner of the Church "1928"
Entrance to Church and view of the adjacent "Changkat" Hospital
Side Road to the Catholic Cemetry
Father P. Allard, from the Societe’ des Missions Etrangeres de Paris (MEP), formed St Joseph’s Catholic Parish in Kinta in 1882. With a parish of 250 Chinese Catholics, Fr. Allard erected the first Church in 1885. He was considered an agricultural pioneer as he and his parishioners grew vegetables. It has been observed then, that “ several lots of garden land from 2 to 20 acres have been taken up and are being cultivated by Fr Allard’s Christians”.
In 1928, Fr Noel Maury built a brick church where the timber church of St Joseph was erected in 1891. Fr. Maury was the Parish Priest for 29 years from 1911 onwards and St Joseph was to become the Mother Church for Catholic Parishes in Ipoh, Kampar and Sitiawan. It was also the 2nd oldest Roman Catholic parish in Perak after Taiping.
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