View of the front of the Maryknoll Sisters Convent in Kowloon, Hong Kong. Building is a two story structure built out of concrete with a front balcony over the entrance. Shutters appear on several windows. The foundation is cut stone. There is a deep entablature on the flat roofline. Writing appears on the front of the image.; Maryknoll, The Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America, was founded in 1911 by Revs. James Anthony Walsh and Thomas Frederick Price to be the main mission outreach of the Roman Catholic Church of the United States. The first group of missioners departed in 1918 for China. Today Maryknoll Priests, Brothers and Sisters are missioned in over 30 countries around the world