Hàm Long Church ( vi, Nhà thờ Hàm Long, french: Église Hàm Long), officially Church of St. Anthony of Padua (french: Église Saint-Antoine-de-Padoue), is a
Roman Catholic church in the center district
Hoàn Kiếm of
Hanoi,
Vietnam. The church was built at the end of the 19th century near an old street named Hàm Long from which Hàm Long Church was called. Today, Hàm Long Church is one of the three major churches of Hanoi, together with
Cửa Bắc Church
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and
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. It was named after saint
Anthony of Padua
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.
History
At the end of the 19th century, a Roman Catholic church was erected near the
Doudart de Lagrée Street of Hanoi. This was an historic street of the Old Quarter of Hanoi with the former name Hàm Long, so the church was more commonly known as the Hàm Long Church.
The actual church was built in 1934 after the design of a Vietnamese architect,
at the time of the
French administration. In this street there is also a
Buddhist pagoda of the same name, Hàm Long Pagoda (Chùa Hàm Long), but its history was dated from the 11th century.
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Roman Catholic churches in Hanoi
Roman Catholic churches completed in 1934
20th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Vietnam