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If you love Sapa and found the information about this beautiful town through the photos on internet before coming with us for one of the best motorbike tours Vietnam, you can see the Sapa church which is so oustanding in many photos.
Sa Pa church is located in a prime location, shielded by Ham Rong Mountain on the back, facing a large, flat area, which is the home to colorful festivals of the mountain town. The church was built in 1895 and it is the most ancient architectural work of the French left in Sa Pa, Lao Cai. Before starting to build this structure, the French architect selected carefully about the terrain. was built in 1895 and it is the most ancient architectural work of the French left in Sa Pa, Lao Cai.
The whole church was built by stone (walls, floors, bell towers …) that are linked by a mixture of sand, lime and molasses under the cross by Roman gothic architecture With total area over 6000m2, Sapa church has enough rooms for the arrangement of the area. The interior is decorated with lovely stained glass windows in a modern style that depict the life of Christ. The church includes seven spacious rooms of more than 500 m2, with the 20 m bell tower and a bell of 1.5 meters high, cast in 1932, weighing 500 kg and the resonation within a radius of nearly one kilometer. Choosing the direction of the church has important spiritual significance for Catholics. The church faces the east, towards the rising sun to welcome the light of the God. At the end of the church (the bell tower) is the west, the birthplace of Christ.
The church of Sapa is always a place where holds many traditional cultural activities of ethnic minorities. At the church, ethnic minorities often held traditional activities known by tourists as ‘market situation”. Additionally, because the structure was designed early, the church of Sapa experienced many events of history.
Though having been standing in the land for more than a hundred years and witnessed the contemporary history of Vietnam, Sapa Church is always under quite well maintenance. Sa Pa Stone Church has been nominated by the Vietnam Records Book Centre as one of the top five over 100-year-old churches in Vietnam.
Do not hesitate to contact us to book one of the best motorcycle tours Vietnam ever to visit this so famous church in Vietnam.
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