The Taiwan Holiness Church (Chinese: 台灣聖教會) was established in 1926[1] when some Taiwanese youths who had converted to the Japan Holiness Church whilst studying in Japan, returned home to Taiwan and began evangelizing in the country along with fellow Japanese pastors.
American Holiness missionaries, belonging to the Oriental Mission Society had arrived in Tokyo, Japan since 1901 and established the Central Gospel Evangelical Office.
The Holiness movement they represented was born in the United States after the American Civil War during a period of religious renewal in the years and was seen by many as a revitalization of the Methodist Church.
Out of this desire for a more intense religiosity was born a new church movement that grew and prospered in America in the last four decades of the 19th century.
Within a few days, a Holiness Church was organized in a building on the main north–south thoroughfare of the city on Zhongshan Road.