Temple of the Three Righteous Ones and Tea Booth, Manchuria, China, ca. 1882-ca. 1936

Photograph of the Temple of the Three Righteous Ones and a tea booth in Manchuria, China. The temple is set on the banks of a river. A number of people can be seen outside the temple dressed in traditional Manchu gowns or qipao.; This belongs to a series of Church of Scotland Foreign Missions Committee lantern slides relating to the Scottish missionary Dugald Christie. Dugald Christie was born in Glencoe in Scotland and studied medicine under the auspices of the Edinburgh Medical Missionary Society. In 1882, along with his first wife, Elizabeth, he went to Manchuria to work as a medical missionary of the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland. He worked initially in Newchang and later moved to the capital of Mukden where he opened Manchuria’s first hospital in 1884. In 1912 he established Mukden Medical College. Dugald Christie retired in 1923 and died in Edinburgh in 1936.