TJN2015a

Census IDTJN2015a
LocationTianjin, Hedong Sacred Heart Church
BuilderFeith
SpecsII/22+Ped
ActionElectric
Note:Formerly in the Church of St. Louis, Tianjin. As of 2024/25 the organ has been moved to the new location.

TJN2015a was the third redundant organ known to have been installed in a church in China (after PEK2006 and PEK2012). Although dismantled in Germany and sold in 2015, final installation apparently did not occur until the Fall of 2016; but the Project has decided to keep the original date, since the organ was originally built in the early 1960s anyway.

This two-manual and pedal Feith organ, formerly in the restored Church of St. Louis in the old French Concession of Tianjin,  was originally built for the Steyler Mission chapel of St. Arnold at Neuenkirchen, near Münster around 1961/62. The mission buildings were demolished in 2016.

The organ was relocated through Instrumente Ladach in Wuppertal. See: http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/saekularisierung-andreas-ladach-handelt-mit-kirchenorgeln-a-1035801.html. (Note that the article in Der Spiegel contains several errors, claiming among other things that the organ was headed to Sichuan province. Instrumente Ladach has confirmed with the Project that this is the organ that was sold to Tianjin.) One writer who has seen the organ reported in later 2016 that “On my visit…two German organ technicians…worked at reassembling a large pipe organ imported from their home country. They had first placed it near the altar, but its size proved too large and a priest instructed them to move it near the entrance.” (Alan Richard Sweeten, China’s Old Churches (Brill, 2019), 212.)

In August 2025, the Project was informed by a colleague in Beijing that this organ was removed from the Church of St. Louis in 2024 or earlier, and replaced with a Viscount Unico P35. The Feith organ was then moved to the Hedong Sacred Heart Church, built in 2012 and located at 439 Dongxing Rd, Tianjin (we believe this is a satellite town outside of Tianjin proper.) The organ is located in a spacious gallery of the 9,000 square meter church. 

The specs are:

I (Hauptwerk) (C- g3)

Prinzipal 8′

Rohrflöte 8′

Oktave 4′

Koppelflöte 4′

Schwiegel 2′

Sesquialter II

Mixtur V-VI

Silberm. Trompete 8′

II (Schwellwerk)

Gedackt 8′

Weidenpfeife 8′

Gemshorn 4′

Rohrquintade 4′

Prinzipal 2′

Sifflöte 2′

Zymbel III

Dulzian 16′

Musette 8′

 

Pedal (C-f1)

Subbass 16′

Prinzipalbass 8′

Gedacktbass 8′

Piffaro 4′ + 2′

Hintersatz IV

Fagott 16′

Couplers and Accessories I/Ped, II/Ped, II/I, SW Tremulant

Hedong Sacred Heart Church, Tianjin