[3] A first chapel was opened in the market town of Sai Kung in the late 1865.
[4]: 125 The Immaculate Heart of Mary Chapel (聖母無玷之心小堂) was built in 1953 in the former village of Sha Tsui (沙咀).
[5] It was submerged, together with the village, at the time of the construction of the High Island Reservoir in the 1970s.
[6] Note: A territory-wide grade reassessment of historic buildings is ongoing.
It also housed the Sung Ming School (崇明學校).A nearby, more modern building was renovated in 2021, and was also named "St. Peter's Chapel".
On 3 February 1942, the Hong Kong-Kowloon Independent Battalion under the People's Anti-Japanese Principal Guerrilla Force of Guangdong, or Dongjiang Guerrilla Force, was established in Wong Mo Ying Church.