Chater Road [SEP] named after
Chater Road
Chater Road is a three-lane road in Central, Hong Kong named after Sir Paul Chater. It begins at its intersection with Pedder Street and Des Voeux Road Central in the west, and ends at Murray Road in the east. It divides Statue Square into a southern and a northern sections.
History.
Chater Road is named after Sir Paul Chater, a leading figure in early colonial Hong Kong, who was instrumental in the Praya Reclamation Scheme, which created the reclaimed land on which the road
-handedly financed the construction of St. Andrew’s Church in Kowloon that is still in use and bears a plaque to his honor. Chater Road, Catchik Street and the office building Chater House are named after him. A commemorative plaque that mentions his Armenian past can be found in Chater House.
- Professor Hovhannes Ghazarian, an Armenian born and educated in Macau, was first to translate the Holy Bible into Chinese, in 1822. Ghazarian (also known as Johannes Lassar), translated the Gospel by St. Matthew in 1807