The Hong Kong Catholic Cathedral of The Immaculate Conception
The Hong Kong Catholic Cathedral of The Immaculate Conception located in Caine Road, Hong Kong, completed in 1888.Cathedral can accommodate 1,000 people, now more than held every Sunday Mass, the wedding is also Catholics.
In 2002 the Church has carried out maintenance works, maintenance plans won the 2003 UNESCO Asia-Pacific Heritage Heritage Conservation Award. Immaculate Conception Cathedral site in Wellington Street, completed in 1842. The church was destroyed by fire in 1886, sold the business after demolition. Existing Immaculate Conception Cathedral of land purchase in 1881, he placed the cornerstone in 1883, completed in 1888, the same year on December 7 Immaculate Conception held for the first time on the eve of the sacrifice, the cathedral was a cost of HK $ 1.2 million. Cathedral was completed in 1988 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Hongkong Post has launched this commemorative stamp.
Immaculate Cathedral Gothic imitation metal design, asymmetric cross stone and brick-built Cathedral was, shorter than the left to the right, the full length building 82 m, 42 m wide, 23.7 m high by 38 granite column support, the central spire 10 meters high. Deacon station is located in the middle of the altar southwest of the Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong has cathedra, the church also hence the name. Cathedral features four small church, including the "Sacred Heart Chapel," "St. Anthony's Chapel," "suffering Chapel" and "St. Joseph's Chapel," where three small marble hall Festival Taiwan originally Wellington Street church of old things.
Over the years the cathedral after several alterations, plus set up in 1923 Cathedral stained glass windows; during World War II, the Japanese artillery shell at December 12, 1941 break up a stone pillar behind the church. After the war, church steeples and additions large cross at the top of the church in the middle of the 1950s, while the church porch to the side Caine Road, the parish center built in the 1970s was demolished. 1954 "Year of Our Lady", the Hong Kong Catholic student donations to buy a wood statue of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, the church is now placed on the central wall; and the Church of the Virgin Mary and another one placed in the "Our Lady of Mount" outside the eastern entrance. Coupled with stained glass windows set in 1985. "Misery Chapel" of stained glass in geometric patterns renovated in 2002, put on by the Zhang Qikai designed to 120 "Holy Martyrs of China" as the theme of the stained glass windows.
Scenic Area Address: Western, Central, Hong Kong 16 Caine Road
Car lines: ride on Hong Kong Island GMB 10x, 22-way travel.