中文摘要：

景观研究一直为国外文化地理学界所重视。作为宗教景观重要组成部分之一的教堂历来也是宗教地理研究的重点。教堂在城市中的时空演化可以直接反映城市宗教景观的形成与扩散机制。对广州基督教教堂历史时期空间布局的研究表明：从1842年开始，广州基督教教堂从十三行和南关一带逐渐向外拓展；建国前，原老城区、汉民路（今北京路）和河南（珠江南岸）北部已成为教堂集中区；在1960年代的教堂大联合之后，广州教堂的分布表现出收缩之势。教堂的空间布局主要受内在交通区位和人口因素的影响，同时，政治因素、城区经济发展水平、城市空间形态、宗教景观的空间集聚和竞争、城区环境等外部条件也对其有一定制约或促进作用。而当今的社会信息化与文化全球化，也对城市基督教教堂的空间格局发展提出了许多新的问题。

英文摘要：

The spatial distribution and evolution of churches can reflect the formation and diffusion mechanism of urban religious landscapes directly, church, as an important part of religious landscapes, is the focus of religious geography researches. The paper divides the spatial layout of Guangzhou Protestant churches into 3 periods and their own characters according to historical studies. It holds that mainly influenced by the intrinsic factors of traffic and demography, the spatial diffusion pattern of Guangzhou Protestant churches had mainly experienced four phases, too. Those areas with convenient traffic, mass population and special group were often favored by the churches while some external factors also had constraints or promotions on it. 1） in an era of turbulence, the part or overall spatial pattern of Guangzhou Protestant churches would be changed with the political situation at that time;2） whether churches could develop in sustainability depended on the degree of the level of economic development in the areas they situated;3） the change of urban spatial patterns itself would affect the sitting of church;4） the concentration of different religious sites would have scale effect. But this positive effect would gradually decay, and spatial competition between them would follow; 5） when given selective opportunities, church would be placed in areas with good environment; 6） information society and cultural globalization also make many new problems for the development of spatial layout of urban church. The paper believes that the construction of urban religious sites must be compatible with the scale of believers, official religious policy, and the socio-economic development of urban areas as well. How to consider the new church site and its land use patterns into the overall urban planning, and how to coordinate the original religious landscapes with other cultural landscapes in space may be a research topic deserved to be continued in depth in the future.