Weekend Walk is your guide to getting away in the city using nothing but your own two feet.
Beijing, or Peking, as it was once romanticized, used to be a city of churches of all shapes and sizes, as well as a missionary presence to go along with them that also had a medical bent. Some of these churches and institutes of medicine still stand today, and they'll be the focus of our walk.
We begin at Dengshikou subway station. The name "Dengshikou" stems from the legacy of a seasonal lantern market held in the area towards the end of Chinese New Year each year, from the late Ming to early Qing dynasties.