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The Saint Cross Church () is a
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in Jingliao Village,
Houbi District Houbi District () is a rural district of about 22,108 residents in Tainan, Taiwan. History After the handover of Taiwan from Japan to the Republic of China in 1945, Houbi was organized as a rural township of Tainan County. On 25 December 20 ...
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Tainan Tainan (), officially Tainan City, is a Special municipality (Taiwan), special municipality in southern Taiwan facing the Taiwan Strait on its western coast. Tainan is the oldest city on the island and also commonly known as the "Capital City" ...
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Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...
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History

The church was designed in the 1950s. In 1955,
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priest Eric Jansen who was stationed in the village decided to build a Catholic church.


Architecture

Designed by German architect
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, the church building consists of four parts, which are pyramid chapel, coned bell tower, basilica and holy shrine. Towers of the four parts were built with aluminum-covered cypress. At each of the tower tip lies a representative totem. The church features a dormitory and a kindergarten within the same compound. The church has also a small museum depicting the history of the church from its founding.


See also

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List of tourist attractions in Taiwan Popular tourist attractions in Taiwan include the following: Attractions Historical buildings * Beihai Tunnel, Beigan () * Beihai Tunnel, Nangan () * Daxi Wude Hall () * Ete ...
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Christianity in Taiwan Taiwan has a Christian minority, making up about 3.9% of its population. Roughly half of Taiwan's Christians are Catholic, and half Protestant. Due to the small number of practitioners, Christianity has not influenced the island nation's Han Chines ...


References

1955 establishments in Taiwan Roman Catholic churches completed in 1955 Churches in Tainan Roman Catholic churches in Taiwan 20th-century Roman Catholic church buildings {{taiwan-church-stub