Sacred Heart Cathedral

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This is a church with a long history. The church was built after 25 years. It is a combination of Chinese and Western architecture, Western Gothic style and Chinese architectural techniques!

Sacred Heart Cathedral 📍Detailed location: No.56, Jiubu Front, Yide Road, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province ⏰Opening hours: 08:30-11:30 14:30-17:30 (Tuesday to Friday); 08:30-17:00 (Saturday, Sunday) 💰Ticket price: free 🚉Traffic strategy: -Take bus 8/14/29/82/86/87/180/186/253/823 and get off at Haizhu Square (Yide East) station, and then walk about 550 meters to reach the attraction. -Take Metro Line 6 and get off at Yide Road Station (Exit B). After exiting the station, walk about 400 meters to reach the church; take Metro Line 2 and get off at Haizhu Square Station (Exit B1) and walk after exiting the station It can be reached about 700 meters. 🍃Recommendation reason: -The Sacred Heart Cathedral is a magnificent and distinctive Catholic church. It is also a large-scale Gothic building with twin spires in China, and one of the four all-stone Gothic churches in the world. -The church was designed by French designers and built by Chinese craftsmen. The walls and pillars here are made of hundreds of thousands of granite, which is why it is called the "stone room", which is comparable to the world-famous Notre Dame Cathedral. ❗️Architectural features: The church has flying buttresses on the east, west and north sides to set off the outer walls of the church. Entering the church, there are 10 giant stone pillars on the left and right to support the sharply rising pointed arch, so that the whole space retains a sense of upward ascending, and the roof presents an ups and downs. The front facade of the church is divided into three floors, and the plan is in the shape of a Latin cross. The bottom floor is a very distinctive "perspective door" in Gothic architecture; the center of the second floor is a rose round window, and there is a pointed arch window on each side of the rose round window to form symmetry; the two sides of the third floor are bell towers, and the east bell tower is hung with copper The clock group, the west clock tower is installed with a clock with a roman clock face. Here, it is worth mentioning that the towering minarets on the two bell towers are octagonal and are composed of iron pieces connected with stones.

Beautiful sacred place....had a great time the architecture is so beautiful and just looks amazing.

if you come to Guangzhou dont miss it. Mondays is closed, opening hours afternoon from 2:30pm to 5:00pm.

if you want see some great architecture you must visit the place .. i personally loved the art ...and its a peaceful place

beautiful place

Catedral del Sagrado Corazón en Guangzhou, construida en 1888 con financiación francesa y de adscripción católica.Como en la de Notre Dame de París, el peso se descarga sobre arbotantes.