The Cathedral of St Joseph;
Sichuanese romanization: ''Shen Ro Se Chu Chiao Tso Tʽang''; or simply . is the
Roman Catholic
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cathedral of the
Archdiocese of Chongqing, situated on St Joseph Lane, Minsheng Road in
Yuzhong District
Yuzhong District () is the central district and heart of Chongqing municipality. It is the capital of the municipality and is also the political, economical, and entertainment center of the city of Chongqing. Located in the central portion of Yuz ...
of the city of
Chongqing
ChongqingPostal Romanization, Previously romanized as Chungking ();. is a direct-administered municipality in Southwestern China. Chongqing is one of the four direct-administered municipalities under the State Council of the People's Republi ...
, West China. It has been subjected to the control of the state-sanctioned
Catholic Patriotic Association
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since 1957.
History
The cathedral was built in the late 19th century by French missionaries of the
Paris Foreign Missions Society
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. The construction started in 1879 and was completed in 1891, a bell tower was added to the building in 1893.
It has a square tower with a clock and is covered in
ivy
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.
Gallery
File:Joek Sat Tong.jpg, The cathedral tower in 2015
File:Kathedrale St. Joseph (Chongqing) 01.jpg, The ivy-covered cathedral in 2013
File:St. Joseph's Cathedral, Chungking (interior).jpg, Interior view in the 1920s
See also
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Catholic Church in Sichuan
The presence of the Catholic Church in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan and city of Chongqing dates back to 1640, when two missionaries, Lodovico Buglio and Gabriel de Magalhães, through Jesuit missions in China, entered the provin ...
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Cathedral of the Angels, Xichang
The Cathedral of the Angels; Sichuanese romanization: ''Tʽien Shen Tʽang'', commonly referred to as Xichang Catholic Church ( zh, s=西昌天主堂, w=Hsi-chʻang Tʻien-chu-tʻang, p=Xīchāng Tiānzhǔtáng, links=no; Sichuanese romanization: ...
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Immaculate Conception Cathedral, Chengdu
Notes
References
External links
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Churches in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chongqing
Chongqing
ChongqingPostal Romanization, Previously romanized as Chungking ();. is a direct-administered municipality in Southwestern China. Chongqing is one of the four direct-administered municipalities under the State Council of the People's Republi ...
Chongqing
ChongqingPostal Romanization, Previously romanized as Chungking ();. is a direct-administered municipality in Southwestern China. Chongqing is one of the four direct-administered municipalities under the State Council of the People's Republi ...
St Joseph, Chongqing
Roman Catholic churches completed in 1891
Roman Catholic churches completed in 1893
19th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in China
Yuzhong District
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