Wooden Catholic church in Kon Tum

05/14/2015

The Cathedral church of Kon Tum diocese, known as the wooden church, could be regarded as one of the most attractive religious architectures.

The wooden church was built by a French priest named Guise Decrouille in 1913 and completed in 1918. The church was built with hundreds of cubic meters of such high-quality wood as ca chit, a valuable wood once growing in abundance across the Central Highlands and by craftsmen from provinces of Binh Dinh, Quang Nam and the Northern region.

 

Some images of the wooden church:

 

 

 

The church's architecture combines Roman arches and features of tribes' houses of Bana ethnic.

From 1994 to 1997, the church was repaired and expanded

The church's main hall

The stained-glass windows in the church

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