1. Tra Co church, Quang Ninh province
The Tra Co Church is located in Tra Co Ward, Mong Cai City, Quang Ninh Province. The church was built in the 80s of the 19th century and restored in 1995. The church has hundreds of relieves and an 80-year-old bell.
2. Phat Diem Church, Ninh Binh Province
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3. Wooden Church, Kon Tum
This is a unique architectural work which has stood firmly during the
past century. The church is located right in the middle of Kon Tum
town. With the architecture style, an interior decoration mixed between
the local and western culture, the church attracts many tourists inland
and abroad coming to contemplate.
The official name of the church
is the head church of Kon Tum, but people here used to call it wooden
church as almost of this religious construction is made of wood.
Designed in Roman architecture style combined with the shape of house on
stilts of the Central Highlands community, the church includes of five
main parts: the cross tower of 25m height, two roofs – upper and lower –
tiled with slate tiles, the walls, dome and the floor. All are made of
prestigious kinds of wood such as ironwood, rosewood, etc. The most
impressive is that the church includes more than 100 pillars arranged in
four rows: two rows inside the room and two others close to the walls.
All the pillars are equal in shiny black with diameter of 40cm.
The
interior is decorated with wood combined with brocade and tree cover,
which express the skillfulness of the minor ethnic artists, but arranged
in European style, making a strange feeling to the visitors. In
overall, the wooden church is just like a giant cross. Inside the
church, there is a display room introducing about the custom and
tradition of Central Highlands minor ethnic groups. Not far from the
church is friary of Kon Tum built by the first diocesan of Kon Tum in
1935, with similar structure as a church but with larger scale.
4. Mang Lang Church, Phu Yen Province
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The church is 35 kilometers north of Tuy Hoa City. It is one of the oldest churches in Vietnam.
The church was built in 1892 by French missionary Father Joseph Lacassagne in gothic style. This place was the native village of blessed Andrew of Phu Yen beheaded in 1644. It is now an important shrine, as Andrew was declared Patron of the youth. Alexander de Rhodes wrote here his Cathechismus in octo dies in Latin and Vietnamese (Quốc ngữ) and printed it in 1651.
5. Buon Ho Church, Dak Lak Province
6. Nha Trang Cathedral
The Nha Trang Cathedral is the largest church in the city of Nha Trang. This neo-Gothic-style Cathedral was inaugurated on 14 May of the year 1993 by father Louis Valley. The Nha Trang Cathedral occupies an area of 760m2 with capacity for 600 people, the Cathedral gardens and the outdoor range 2500 m2. The Cathedral is entirely made of cement reinforced and equipped with a colorful stained-glass Windows.
Situated on a hill about 10 meters high, this hill before the construction of the cathedral was much higher, however the French used explosive charges to 500 and level the land and build the access road, reducing the height of the hill on which sits the cathedral of Nha Trang.
Inside, the church floors were paved using rocks, but the most striking are the neon lights adorning the cathedral. We have red neons behind the crucifix, a form of white lights halo over the statue of the Virgin Mary, neon pink in the tabernacle and every one of the arches of the structure, neon blue.
The exterior of the Cathedral of Nha Trang are decorated with numerous statues of saints.
7. Domaine de Marie Church, Da Lat
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The Domaine de Marie Church, also called Mai Anh Church or Cherry Church, is home to the Roman Catholic nuns of the Mission of Charity.
Actually, that's why many people think that there's a feminine charm attached to the architecture of the church. Located on a nice hill at 1 Ngo Quyen St., Ward 6, nearly 0.6 mile southwest away from the city center, it is a 29.6-acre architectural complex consisting of the main church and two convents.
It offers a scenic panoramic view of the city. It was built from 1930 to 1943 following the 17th century French style. Before 1975, this is the main abbey with more than 50 female nuns, most of which are Vietnamese who carry out social activities like opening orphanages and kindergarten. However, because its architecture is the harmonious combination of Western art and Vietnamese folk art, the church definitely stands out from other ones created at the same era.
8. The Cock Church, Da Lat.
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The church on Tran Phu Street near the city’s post office is better known under the name of Nha Tho Con Ga (Rooster Church), because on the top of its bell tower sits the statue of a rooster.
Historical documents show that the church started out as a small chapel built by the French in 1920 and named Hic Domus Est Dei. Two years later it was rebuilt into a 26-metre-long, eight-meter-wide cathedral with a 16-meter-tall bell tower.
From July 1931 to January 1942 the church was enlarged again to turn it into the largest cathedral in Da Lat. Currently, it is 65 meters long and 14 meters wide and boasts a 47-meter-tall bell tower.
The bronze rooster statue on the top of the tower is 66 centimeters long and 58 centimeters tall. The rooster replaces the customary displays the cardinal points and is a favorite animal of the French.
The cathedral’s architecture also recalls the French influence and mimics European Catholic churches in the Middle Ages. It has 70 French-made stained glass windows which color the sunlight falling through them.
The main door of the church, itself located on a hill, looks toward Langbian, the highest mountain in Da Lat.
9. Bao Loc Church, Lam Dong
10. Tac Say Church, Ca Mau Province
11/ Sapa church (Vietnamguidebook's pick)
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Overview: This cross-shaped stone church was designed and built in 1920s by French. Its one of the symbols of Sapa town.
90% of followers are Mong ethnic people.
Location: in the center os Sapa town, near Sapa market
Time of mass: 19:00PM (weekdays); 09:00 & 18:30PM (Sunday)
Website: www.sapachurch.org (in Vietnamese language only)
Mass time: 9:30AM on Sunday with English service
Brief History:
Designed by architect J.Bourard and constructed in almost 3 years (from 7-10-1877 to 11-4-1880), Notre Dame is one of the oldest churches in Saigon.
Full History
Prior to the construction of the present Notre Dame Cathedral, French colonialists held church services in a wooden church built in 1863 on the banks of Charner Canal.
Charner Canal is today's Nguyen Hue street, which runs parallel to Dong Khoi street. In 1887, the Canal was filled in on order of the Colonial Council.
Termites however took a liking to this wooden church, and services had to be moved to the stateroom of the French Governor's Palace until the Notre-Dame Cathedral could be completed.
With all the construction materials imported from France, the Cathedral took three years to complete (1887 - 1880). The inauguration ceremony was held on Easter Day 1880 in the presence of Le Myre de Vilers, the governor of Cochinchine. And at that time the name of it was State Cathedral because 2,500,000 France used to construct the Cathedral was from the State of France.
The two bell towers either side of the entrance though were only added fifteen years later in 1895.
In 1903 the France set up the bronze statue of Pigneau de Behaine, also known as the Bishop of Adran, leading Prince Canh by the hand. The meaning was to praise the merit of civilization of France. (Prince Canh was the son of Emperor Gia Long)
In 1945 the statue was broken down. But the stone pedestal remained.
In 1959 Bishop Joseph Pham Van Thien had attended the Holy Mother Congress at the Vatican and had ordered a Peaceful Notre Dame statue made from granite. The statue was shiped from Roma to Saigon and on 16th February 1959 it was placed on the stone pedestal which had no stautue since 1945. The next day,
Impressive colour
132 years passed by, the baked bricks of Notre Dame Cathedral are still in bright red colour and there is no green moss on them.
Materials
During its construction, all its red bricks were imported from Marseilles, while the coloured glass windows were made in France’s Chartres Province. Many original tiles are carved with the words Guichard Carvin, Marseille St André France, perhaps stating the locality where the tiles were produced. More recent tiles are carved with the words “Wang-Tai Saigon.”, representing the replacements that have since been made in Saigon after the cathedral was damaged during war.
The Numbers
• The Cathedral is 91m long, 35.5m wide. Its dome is 21m high.
• The two bell towers are 57m. The crosses perched on the top of each bell tower measure an impressive 3.5 m high, 2 m wide, and 600 kg in weight. Therefore from the ground to the top of the cross is 60.5m high.
• There are 2 bells named music notes “La” and “Do” in the right bell tower . “Sol”, “Si”, “Mi”, “Re” are 4 bells in the left tower.
3 largest bells are “sol” with 8,745kg, “si” with 3,150kg and “re” with 2.194kg
All 6 bells which were cast in France in 1879, weigh up to 28.85tons
Its said that if 6 bells are rung at the same time, the bells' echo can be heard in a diameter of 10km
• At the same time, the Cathedral can accommodate to 1,200 people.
• There is no place for candle in the Cathedral. Since the inauguration, it has only used elctrical lights.
• A statue of the Virgin Mary graces the surroundings.
Address: 40 Nha Chung street
Mass schedule
Weekday: 5:30AM & 6:15PM
Saturday: 5:30AM & 6:00PM
Sunday: 5:00AM - 7:00AM - 9:00AM - 11:00AM & 4:00PM - 6:00PM
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4. Mang Lang Church, Phu Yen Province
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Pictures: Vietnamguidebook
The church is 35 kilometers north of Tuy Hoa City. It is one of the oldest churches in Vietnam.
The church was built in 1892 by French missionary Father Joseph Lacassagne in gothic style. This place was the native village of blessed Andrew of Phu Yen beheaded in 1644. It is now an important shrine, as Andrew was declared Patron of the youth. Alexander de Rhodes wrote here his Cathechismus in octo dies in Latin and Vietnamese (Quốc ngữ) and printed it in 1651.
5. Buon Ho Church, Dak Lak Province
6. Nha Trang Cathedral
The Nha Trang Cathedral is the largest church in the city of Nha Trang. This neo-Gothic-style Cathedral was inaugurated on 14 May of the year 1993 by father Louis Valley. The Nha Trang Cathedral occupies an area of 760m2 with capacity for 600 people, the Cathedral gardens and the outdoor range 2500 m2. The Cathedral is entirely made of cement reinforced and equipped with a colorful stained-glass Windows.
Situated on a hill about 10 meters high, this hill before the construction of the cathedral was much higher, however the French used explosive charges to 500 and level the land and build the access road, reducing the height of the hill on which sits the cathedral of Nha Trang.
Inside, the church floors were paved using rocks, but the most striking are the neon lights adorning the cathedral. We have red neons behind the crucifix, a form of white lights halo over the statue of the Virgin Mary, neon pink in the tabernacle and every one of the arches of the structure, neon blue.
The exterior of the Cathedral of Nha Trang are decorated with numerous statues of saints.
7. Domaine de Marie Church, Da Lat
How to get there with Vietnamguidebook: http://vietnamguidebook.blogspot.com/2012/08/dalat-city-of-spring.html
The Domaine de Marie Church, also called Mai Anh Church or Cherry Church, is home to the Roman Catholic nuns of the Mission of Charity.
Actually, that's why many people think that there's a feminine charm attached to the architecture of the church. Located on a nice hill at 1 Ngo Quyen St., Ward 6, nearly 0.6 mile southwest away from the city center, it is a 29.6-acre architectural complex consisting of the main church and two convents.
It offers a scenic panoramic view of the city. It was built from 1930 to 1943 following the 17th century French style. Before 1975, this is the main abbey with more than 50 female nuns, most of which are Vietnamese who carry out social activities like opening orphanages and kindergarten. However, because its architecture is the harmonious combination of Western art and Vietnamese folk art, the church definitely stands out from other ones created at the same era.
8. The Cock Church, Da Lat.
How to get there with Vietnamguidebook: http://vietnamguidebook.blogspot.com/2012/08/dalat-city-of-spring.html
The church on Tran Phu Street near the city’s post office is better known under the name of Nha Tho Con Ga (Rooster Church), because on the top of its bell tower sits the statue of a rooster.
Historical documents show that the church started out as a small chapel built by the French in 1920 and named Hic Domus Est Dei. Two years later it was rebuilt into a 26-metre-long, eight-meter-wide cathedral with a 16-meter-tall bell tower.
From July 1931 to January 1942 the church was enlarged again to turn it into the largest cathedral in Da Lat. Currently, it is 65 meters long and 14 meters wide and boasts a 47-meter-tall bell tower.
The bronze rooster statue on the top of the tower is 66 centimeters long and 58 centimeters tall. The rooster replaces the customary displays the cardinal points and is a favorite animal of the French.
The cathedral’s architecture also recalls the French influence and mimics European Catholic churches in the Middle Ages. It has 70 French-made stained glass windows which color the sunlight falling through them.
The main door of the church, itself located on a hill, looks toward Langbian, the highest mountain in Da Lat.
9. Bao Loc Church, Lam Dong
10. Tac Say Church, Ca Mau Province
11/ Sapa church (Vietnamguidebook's pick)
How to get there with Vietnam guidebook: http://vietnamguidebook.blogspot.com/2012/11/sapa.html
Overview: This cross-shaped stone church was designed and built in 1920s by French. Its one of the symbols of Sapa town.
90% of followers are Mong ethnic people.
Location: in the center os Sapa town, near Sapa market
Time of mass: 19:00PM (weekdays); 09:00 & 18:30PM (Sunday)
Website: www.sapachurch.org (in Vietnamese language only)
Pictures: Vietnamguidebook
12/ Notre Dame Cathedral (Vietnamguidebook's pick)
Address: 01 Paris Commune street ( 01 Cong Xa Paris, next to the end of Dong Khoi street)
Mass time: 9:30AM on Sunday with English service
Brief History:
Designed by architect J.Bourard and constructed in almost 3 years (from 7-10-1877 to 11-4-1880), Notre Dame is one of the oldest churches in Saigon.
Full History
Prior to the construction of the present Notre Dame Cathedral, French colonialists held church services in a wooden church built in 1863 on the banks of Charner Canal.
Charner Canal is today's Nguyen Hue street, which runs parallel to Dong Khoi street. In 1887, the Canal was filled in on order of the Colonial Council.
Termites however took a liking to this wooden church, and services had to be moved to the stateroom of the French Governor's Palace until the Notre-Dame Cathedral could be completed.
With all the construction materials imported from France, the Cathedral took three years to complete (1887 - 1880). The inauguration ceremony was held on Easter Day 1880 in the presence of Le Myre de Vilers, the governor of Cochinchine. And at that time the name of it was State Cathedral because 2,500,000 France used to construct the Cathedral was from the State of France.
The two bell towers either side of the entrance though were only added fifteen years later in 1895.
In 1903 the France set up the bronze statue of Pigneau de Behaine, also known as the Bishop of Adran, leading Prince Canh by the hand. The meaning was to praise the merit of civilization of France. (Prince Canh was the son of Emperor Gia Long)
In 1945 the statue was broken down. But the stone pedestal remained.
In 1959 Bishop Joseph Pham Van Thien had attended the Holy Mother Congress at the Vatican and had ordered a Peaceful Notre Dame statue made from granite. The statue was shiped from Roma to Saigon and on 16th February 1959 it was placed on the stone pedestal which had no stautue since 1945. The next day,
Cardinal
Aganianian chaired the ceremony for the statue, and from that day
forward the cathedral was known as Notre-Dame Cathedral.
Today, the Cathedral is popular for both Catholics and non-Catholics alike. Many young couples come here to take wedding photos.
Impressive colour
132 years passed by, the baked bricks of Notre Dame Cathedral are still in bright red colour and there is no green moss on them.
Materials
During its construction, all its red bricks were imported from Marseilles, while the coloured glass windows were made in France’s Chartres Province. Many original tiles are carved with the words Guichard Carvin, Marseille St André France, perhaps stating the locality where the tiles were produced. More recent tiles are carved with the words “Wang-Tai Saigon.”, representing the replacements that have since been made in Saigon after the cathedral was damaged during war.
The Numbers
• The Cathedral is 91m long, 35.5m wide. Its dome is 21m high.
• The two bell towers are 57m. The crosses perched on the top of each bell tower measure an impressive 3.5 m high, 2 m wide, and 600 kg in weight. Therefore from the ground to the top of the cross is 60.5m high.
• There are 2 bells named music notes “La” and “Do” in the right bell tower . “Sol”, “Si”, “Mi”, “Re” are 4 bells in the left tower.
3 largest bells are “sol” with 8,745kg, “si” with 3,150kg and “re” with 2.194kg
All 6 bells which were cast in France in 1879, weigh up to 28.85tons
Its said that if 6 bells are rung at the same time, the bells' echo can be heard in a diameter of 10km
• At the same time, the Cathedral can accommodate to 1,200 people.
• There is no place for candle in the Cathedral. Since the inauguration, it has only used elctrical lights.
• A statue of the Virgin Mary graces the surroundings.
13/ St Joseph Cathedral (Vietnamguidebook's pick)
Pictures: Vietnamguidebook
Address: 40 Nha Chung street
Mass schedule
Weekday: 5:30AM & 6:15PM
Saturday: 5:30AM & 6:00PM
Sunday: 5:00AM - 7:00AM - 9:00AM - 11:00AM & 4:00PM - 6:00PM
Overview: Saint Joseph’s
Cathedral (or Hanoi
Cathedral) was built in 1884 and inaugurated on 23 December 1887. It is
one of the oldest (and least changed ) French architecture works in
Hanoi. See its present pics and the pics taken in 1887.
Designed with domes to resemble the Notre
Dame Cathedral in Paris, this beautiful Gothic cathedral is 64.5m long and 20.5m wide. The twin belltowers are 31.5m high.
The main materials used to build the cathedral were baked bricks
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