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Catholic Church
Province:

Shandong

City:

Qingdao

The Catholic Church, originally named St.Michael's, was built by the Germans in 1934. The 60-meter-high building, covering 2470 square meters, is the biggest catholic church of Qingdao city and one of the Chinese famous Catholic Churches.

The Catholic Church was designed according to Gothicism and Romanesque and is of the Neo-Romanism. It is made of yellow granite and armored concrete. Latin cross-shaped is applied for the construction plane and simple and elegant images are engraved on the surface. The Roman arch windows, with smooth lines, look solemn and simple.

At the top of the gate, there is a large rose window, and on both sides of it, there stands loftily a 56-meter-high bell tower. At the cone-shaped spires covered with red tiles, there erects respectively a 4.5-meter-high huge cross.

Inside the church, there is a big and bright hall, which is spacious enough to hold one thousand people. Soft light comes through the multi-color glass windows. There are aisles in the east and west of the hall, two big alters and four small alters at the back and frescos of eikon painted on the dome of the hall, in the bright light, permeating an strong religious atmosphere.

The area around this church is also well worth a wander, with old 30s German buildings mixed in with modern Chinese concrete. The cobbled streets leading up to the church are normally filled with local Muslim vendors selling their wares, the meat and octupi on stick look intriguing, and are worth tasting.