Guangzhou Holy Heart Cathedral located in downtown Guangzhou, a German road. Sacred Heart Cathedral formal groundbreaking ceremony was held on June 18, 1863 date of the Feast of the Sacred Heart, Sacred Heart Cathedral, so named. Which lasted 25 years before completion, the Catholic Diocese of Guangzhou, the most ambitious, the most distinctive of a cathedral. Holy Heart Cathedral, designed by French designer, built of Chinese craftsmen.

Church buildings total area of ​​2754 square meters, something 35 meters wide, north-south length of 78.69 meters, 58.5 meters high from the ground to the spire, Holy Heart Cathedral in 1861 at a cost of 400,000 francs to establish, with the world-famous Notre Dame de Paris, France Comparable. Is the largest church, one of the most ambitious existing double-pointed Tage Te architecture, Southeast Asia's largest Catholic stone structure building, is one of the world's four Catholic Diocese of Guangzhou, the whole structure of Gothic stone church building, since all walls and pillars of the church are made with granite stone, it is also known as the "sarcophagus" or "sarcophagus Sacred heart of Jesus," "sarcophagus Catholic Church." 1996 was declared as a national cultural heritage. Is a national AAAAA level scenic spots. Guangdong Province key cultural relics protection units.

Sacred Heart Church original area of ​​6,000 square meters, in addition to the church, as well as hospitals, seminaries and primary and secondary schools and other buildings, the existing church, and the bishop's something Yi Tudor Hall, in front of the plaza, Zhou Bian by shops and is houses. Chapel plane was a Latin cross, ride north to south, divided into three layers. Tip 3 open bottom arch doors, back into the outer frame layer with a pair of posts 7, 7 and the layers pointed arch wire, the middle of a middle diameter of 6 meters, the hollow stone rose window. The bottom wall east and west sides were engraved with "Jenuslem1863" and "Roma1863" Latin.

Filigree floor of which is a circular stone rose window. Three for the bell tower, octagonal pointed top of the tower one pair of steep steep clock tower equipped with four from France to the big bell; west of the bell tower of the west, south and north faces three towers equipped with Roman word clock face clock, the Campanile east hanging bell named group in the Virgin Mary; hall with two rows of longitudinal beam column space into the hall and the aisle, using tapered dome cross ribs, east and west sides of the facade built flying buttresses and flying buttresses, bracing volley. The building of the pointed arch windows, rose windows, parapet and fine interior decoration, stigma beam column and a deformation of wheat for decoration, beam column and column bases together represent solid as a rock; outlet for the Chinese traditional style Shishi style.

Real command of the church to complete the construction by the Guangdong Jiexi all aerodromes town of Tamura pointed mason - Hakka Cai Xiao done, to see this building unique Gothic building, and integration into a lot of Chinese elements, the construction of the whole church, all with the Chinese indigenous methods glutinous tung oil instead of cement, so that both waterproof and strong, but also from the dome stone chisel with two holes with iron bars to wear, which is more secure, the church roof outlet, China also turned into a lion shape, the floor also get rid of the original design of the stones into Guangdong-order brick, so moisture better, the door is also engraved with the Cantonese-style wood carving.

Scenic Area Address: Yuexiu District, Guangzhou, a German road

Car lines: by 8, 823 Road, 61 Road, 82 Road, 31 Road, 38 Road bus via a German Road (delivery hospital) station.