The Sacred Heart Cathedral (), commonly called the Hongjialou Cathedral, is the cathedral of the

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Jinan The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Jinan ( la, Zinanen(sis), ) is an archdiocese located in the city of Jinan (Shandong) in China. History * September 3, 1839: Established as Apostolic Vicariate of Shantung from the Diocese of Beijing * Decembe ...

in the city of

Jinan Jinan (), Postal Map Romanization, alternately romanization of Chinese, romanized as Tsinan, is the Capital (political), capital of Shandong province in East China, Eastern China. With a population of 9.2 million, it is the second-largest city i ...

, the capital of

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. It is the largest church in the region and a landmark of Jinan. The cathedral was constructed during the years 1901 to 1905 (and extended again in 1906). The building project was financed with funds from the indemnity that was stipulated by the

Boxer Protocol The Boxer Protocol was signed on September 7, 1901, between the Qing Empire of China and the Eight-Nation Alliance that had provided military forces (including Austria-Hungary, France, Germany, United Kingdom, Italy, Japan, Russia, and the Unit ...

. The basic layout of this

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church is a Latin cross with two tall towers. It is reminiscent of Notre Dame de Paris. The main building of the church covers 1650 square meters and can accommodate about 800 people. The architect was the Franciscan brother Korbinian Paugger (庞会襄, born in Bolzano, died in Brixen in 1949 aged 94). The builder was the mason Lu Licheng () from Suncun (), a village in the Jinan area, who supervised nearly 1000 stonemasons for the construction project. The cathedral was closed in 1966 due to the Cultural Revolution, its interior furnishings were dismantled. It was reopened again on Christmas Day 1985. In 1992, it was declared a heritage site of Shandong Province. The cathedral is located between Hongjialou Square and the Hongjialou Campus of

Shandong University Shandong University (, abbreviated as Shanda, , English abbreviation SDU) is a public research comprehensive university in Jinan, Shandong with one campus in Weihai, Shandong and one campus in Qingdao, Shandong and is supported directly by the ...

. The cathedral compound also houses Holy Spirit Seminary (Shengshen Beixiu Yuan, founded in December 1998).David E. Mungello: "The spirit and the flesh in Shandong, 1650-1785", Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. (March 21, 2001)
/ref> File:Sacred-Heart-Cathedral-Jinan-back.JPG, View from the campus of Shandong University File:Jesus-Sheep-Jinan.JPG, A sculpture of Jesus in front of the cathedral File:Sacredheartcathedraljinan.jpg, View from Hongjialou Square

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