). Even though it is in

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, the parish shares its name with neighbouring

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's Tân Định Ward. It was built during the French colonial period in the 1870s and completed on 16 December 1876, when Vietnam was part of

French Indochina French Indochina (previously spelled as French Indo-China),; vi, Đông Dương thuộc Pháp, , lit. 'East Ocean under French Control; km, ឥណ្ឌូចិនបារាំង, ; th, อินโดจีนฝรั่งเศส, ...

. The architecture is mainly neo-Romanesque, but it also has some neo-Gothic and

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elements. It has been painted pastel-pink both on the exterior and interior since 1957, earning it the nickname "the pink church" (). It is the second-largest church in Ho Chi Minh City, after Notre-Dame Basilica in

. They both belong to the

Archdiocese of Ho Chi Minh City The Archdiocese (Metropolitan) of Ho Chi Minh City (former Saigon; vi, Tổng giáo phận Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh, french: Archidiocèse d'Hô-Chi-Minh-Ville, la, Archidioecesis Metropolitanae Hochiminhopolitana) is a Roman Catholic ecclesia ...

. Tân Định Church is not a cathedral; Notre-Dame is the

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(seat) of this metropolitan archdiocese. Its address is 289 Hai Bà Trưng Street, Ward 8 ( 8), District 3, Ho Chi Minh City. File:Goc chup thang Nha tho Tan Dinh.jpg File:C 051.jpg File:Tan Dinh Catholic Church.jpg File:Tan Dinh Church.jpg

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Religious buildings and structures in Ho Chi Minh City French colonial architecture in Vietnam 19th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Vietnam Roman Catholic churches completed in 1876 {{vietnam-church-stub