There are many churches in Guangzhou, but their appearance is still different. And the grandeur and magnificence, breathtaking is the Stone Chamber Sacred Heart Cathedral, located in Yide Road, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou. It was laid in 1863 and completed in 1888, which took 25 years to complete, designed by French designers and built by Chinese craftsmen, and has a history of 100 years.
Most of the streets are bustling with traffic, mostly small carts pulling goods, because the Yide Road wholesale market is full of merchants every day, rain or shine. In the distance, you can faintly see the figure of the Sacred Heart Cathedral, a building of great outstanding cultural achievements. It is the most magnificent and characteristic cathedral in the Catholic Diocese of Guangzhou.
All the walls and pillars of the church are made of granite stone, and some of the stones are very large, even looking more than a thousand pounds, and those responsible for connecting the stones must not be simple. Therefore, the Sacred Heart Cathedral of the Stone Chamber is called "Stone Room" or "Stone Room Jesus Sacred Heart Church" and "Stone Room Catholic Church".
Covering an area of more than 6,000 square meters, there are existing churches, bishops' palaces and yiduo halls in the east and west. It is one of the most magnificent double-spire Gothic buildings in China, the largest stone structure Catholic building in Southeast Asia, and one of the four all-stone structure Gothic church buildings in the world, which can be compared with the world-famous Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, France.
The plan of the church is In the shape of a Latin cross, sitting north to south, divided into 3 floors. The ground floor opens 3 pointed arch ticket doors, the door frame has 7 pairs of columns and 7 layers of pointed arch ribs, the middle of the middle is a 6-meter diameter, stone carved hollow rose window; the second floor is a stone carved hollow circular rose window; the third floor is a bell tower, a pair of octagonal spires on the top of the steep, large bell tower is equipped with four large bronze bells shipped from France.
Walking into the church, the golden glittering dome of the cathedral is majestic and spectacular, and it is deeply shocking. In the afternoon sun, the light passes through the colorful glass windows, and the fierce sunlight becomes soft, and the pictures on the windows describe a biblical story. Brick by brick, stone, ancient Bell, devout Kagura, forming a kind and solemn religious atmosphere.
The stone chamber has experienced two major damages, one is during the first War of Resistance Against Japan, and the other is the Cultural Revolution, which is considered to be subversive destruction, even if the stone wall and stone pillar part have been repaired several times, there are still burn marks, and it once became a garbage disposal site. Today, the stone chamber has regained its majesty.
The two spire-topped stone towers on the front point straight to the clouds, perhaps pointing to heaven, to the path of God. It just so happened that a plane broke through the long sky, as if to abandon everything in the past and fly to a new and distant place.
This peculiar Gothic building also incorporates a lot of Chinese elements, and the real command to complete the construction is completed by the stonemason of Jiantian Village in Jiexiping Town, Guangdong Province, the Hakka Cai Xiao, the Chinese elements of the church, which must be carefully observed to find Oh.
If you have free time, it is better to bring full of piety, give your heart here, put aside all troubles, and feel the purest faith and historical and humanistic style.