Walter Henry Medhurst
Land in Batavia was purchased by Rev. John Slater of the London Missionary Society in 1819 to establish a station for chaplains to disembark to Asian countries such as China or Japan. This is the first English-speaking institution in Indonesia. On January 7, 1822, Reverend Walter Henry Medhurst was sent by London Missionary Society to work among the Chinese. In the same year he built a bamboo church over the land. The bamboo church lasted until 1828 when the church was renovated. The building was finished in 1829 in Georgian Style, without the extensions (the chancel, the sanctuary and the porch). At that time it was called "Anglican Church", Dutch "Engelse Kerk" or Indonesian "Gereja Inggris".