Hong Kong St. Thomas The Apostle Church
St Thomas The Apostle Church is a Hong Kong Catholic church, by the Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong management. Luk Street, Tsing Yi, New Territories West is located in District 5, was established in 1999 July 4.
Architectural style
St. Thomas the Apostle Church is a six-storey high, with a modern style building. The whole building was form the vertical distribution of up major facilities include: can accommodate 500 people took part in the main rituals of the church, the Blessed Sacrament Chapel, multi-function hall, kindergarten, conference rooms, dormitories and parking priests. Such vertically overlapping arrangement with traditional European Church very different.
Smooth brick exterior walls made of bricks and concrete, giving a feeling of sincere and approachable; brick-by-block carefully rounded and made holes to match the architectural style. Church hall entrance to the entry of the Virgin as the main entrance, the main channel, altar, murals and skylights sequence consisting of glass, having an axis configuration religious. In addition, the front entrance was China's "door" character-shaped design, so that the space between the ladder from the main entrance to the church, showing a gradual development of the atmosphere, which is the same sequence with Chinese-style architectural design concepts.
The main church building is located in the second floor, glass wall designed to increase both coherent sense of space, they can try to adopt natural light for illumination, this design in a manner consistent contact with people more open and modern religious concepts. The roof of the bell tower and crosses, combined with the characteristics of the entire building tower building, the church became a distinctive mark.
Parish patron
Thomas is one of twelve cases of resettlement, three times in the Gospel of John is known as "Didi Mo", that is the meaning of the twins: twins, but another who is still uncertain. Thomas initial impression is that he doubts the resurrection of Jesus, the other deeds rarely mentioned. In fact, his name appears only in the New Testament had eleven, but only describes Thomas's words and deeds in the Gospel of John, the only other scriptures listed his name on the list of cases of resettlement.
Mass and liturgical time
mass
Sunday Mass: 9:30 am (English)
8:00: 00,11: 00 (in Cantonese)
Saturday ahead of Sunday Mass: 7:00 pm (in Cantonese)
Weekday Mass: 7:15 am (in Cantonese)
Sacred Heart of Jesus Mass: Monthly First Friday: 8:30 pm when (in Cantonese)
Note: additional began in March 2014 at 12:30 pm (in Cantonese)
Ming for the Eucharist
The first Thursday each month at 8:30 pm
Scenic Area Address: Luk Street, Kwai Tsing, Hong Kong 5
Bus routes: Take the New Territories GMB 409k, 88 Road