St. Ignatius Cathedral, Shanghai

After the Opium War,St. Ignatius Cathedral is the first Catholic Church in Shanghai. At the end of the 19th century, in the Shanghai Catholic Center, a new Church Hall was built in 1904 and completed in 1910,it's the Catholic Church in Xujiahui, China's first Western architectural style church.It covers an area of 2,670 square meters, construction area of 6,670 square meters.There are 64 stone carved columns that come from Suzhou's Jin Mountain, and each of the columns consists of 10 small circular columns in the church. The floor was paved with quadrel and the middle passage is covered with ceramic tiles. The doors and windows are all decorated in the Gothic style, embedded with colorful glass, forming religious images. Here it also has 19 altars in the lobby, among them; the biggest one was carried from Paris in the Easter day of 1919, with high religious art value. The church can hold 2,500 people inside at one time, and features a gargoyle roof and twin red-brick spires.

It's indeed an imitation of the French Gothic building in the mid-century. Red brick walls, white supporting columns, green grey slates and tiled roof, two towers on both sides face to face. As the largest Catholic Church in Shanghai, every morning there're more than one Mass held on Sundays and religious holidays.

Children's Mass Mon. ~ Sat.: 6:15; 19:00

Children's Mass Sat.: 16:30

Lord's Day Mass Sat.: 18:00 Sun.: 6:00; 7:30; 10:00; 18:00, 12:00 (English Mass)

Mass on the First Friday of a Month 18:00

徐家汇天主教堂毗邻繁华的徐家汇商业区，红色的砖墙、两座高耸入云的钟楼顶着十字架，使这座欧洲中世纪哥特式建筑显得惹人注目。这座建于1906年的古老教堂，古朴的外部造型与华美的内部装饰都透着历史气息，你还可在这浓厚的宗教氛围中感受到都市中难得的静谧。

教堂外部的窗框、房檐均以花岗石镶边，屋顶铺设石墨瓦，饰以许多圣子、天主的石雕，十分肃穆。每到夜晚，教堂在外部灯光映衬下格外迷人。教堂内更是宏伟，它由64根立柱支撑，中间是1919年复活节从巴黎运来的大祭台，巨大的空间可容纳近三千人同时做弥撒；尖拱式的门窗镶嵌着五彩的玻璃，阳光透过时会在教堂内折射出五彩的光影，非常美。

这座教堂是由法国耶稣会建造，也称为'圣依纳爵堂'，是上海地区最大的天主教堂。如今每天都有众多信徒来此做弥撒和祷告，而教堂前的绿地则成了新人们拍婚纱照的取景胜地。

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