It has the reputation of “Notre Dame of Paris in the Far East”
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It is the main church of Guangzhou diocese
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Around the stone chamber, schools, hospitals, baby halls and seminaries were built one after another
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Cai Xiao, a craftsman from JieXi, Guangdong Province, was employed as the general manager
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The warships sailed into the Pearl River, shelled the governor’s office of Guangdong and Guangxi, and razed it to the ground
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The church is built of stone, so it is also known as “stone chamber” or “Catholic stone chamber of the sacred heart of Jesus”
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The total construction area of the church is 2750 square meters, 33 meters wide from east to west, 77 meters long from north to south, 58.5 meters high on the main facade, and 27 meters high on the indoor hall, which costs more than 500000 francs
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The inscriptions of “jerusale m1863” and “rome1863” can be seen under the East and West corners of the church
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During the construction of the stone chamber, Cai Xiao and other craftsmen also skillfully used some traditional domestic techniques and materials, such as replacing European wooden truss with Chinese beam lifting wooden frame under the steep roof (the roof was changed to concrete structure in the 17th year of the Republic of China); using tung oil glutinous rice lime slurry as the cementing material; drilling holes in the stones at the top of the dome to pull through the iron rod; roof drainage outlet With Chinese stone lion modeling, etc
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The host is guillenin, bishop of Paris
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Cai Xiao is a native of Jiantian village, Pingshang Town, JieXi, formerly known as Cai zhentuo
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The original site is the governor’s office of Guangdong and Guangxi, the seat of the highest administrative organ of Guangdong and Guangxi in the Qing Dynasty
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In November 1996, the State Council listed Guangzhou Shengxin cathedral as a national key cultural relic protection unit
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This towering and spectacular building has become a precious historical and cultural heritage, truly recording the vicissitudes of more than a hundred years
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For this purpose, the clay was specially transported from Jerusalem and Rome
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In 1856, Britain launched the second Opium War and occupied the governor’s office of Guangdong and Guangxi
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A century old railway bridge – Zhongshan Bridge in Lanzhou, Pearl River Railway Bridge – Haizhu Bridge in Guangzhou, both above and below the bridge, the “cross bridge” and the “Trident bridge” on the river during the Qingming Festival, the “Rainbow Bridge” construction technique of “Quanzhou Luoyang Bridge – the guardian of the natural biological” Oyster “- the inverted” arch bridge “, starting from a strange bridge, approaching Hakka Earth Building – hegui building (video)” upside down ” ”How to make the Leaning Tower of Pisa “slant but not slant” by the combination of Ferris wheel and Bridge “Down”? It’s not easy to correct the code for the protection of ancient buildings
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In January 1861, according to the Treaty of Beijing signed by France, more than 60 mu of the original site of the governor’s office was permanently leased as compensation for the destruction of the Catholic Church in the past, which was used by the Paris church for the construction of the Catholic Church
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It was designed by French architects vonutrin and Humbert
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In 1857, France, on the ground that the missionaries were killed, formed a British French alliance with the British army
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The foundation stone laying ceremony of the church was held on June 18, 1863, so it was named “the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart”
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After 25 years of construction, the church was completed in 1888
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Eastern and Western elements are integrated into the church, and the building stones are taken from Niutoujiao, Xin’an (now Kowloon, Hong Kong)
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JieXi people are diligent, resulting in many skilled craftsmen, among whom Cai Xiao is a highly skilled and capable construction craftsman
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The stone chamber was built by the French Catholic missionary Church of Paris
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Guangzhou Shengxin cathedral is located in Yide Road, the old city of Guangzhou
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