Phat Diem Stone Church

Phat Diem Cathedral (also known as Phat Diem Stone Church) is located about 120 km south of Hanoi. It is a complex of cathedrals and cathedrals of about 22ha in Phat Diem town. , Kim Son District - Ninh Binh Province.

In the early 19th century, Phat Diem was a muddy land with mud and reeds. In 1828, Nguyen Cong Tru, a coffin who was also a famous poet, was sent to the north by the Hue imperial court as "Dinh Dien Su" to explore the new land. People established Tien Hai district (Thai Binh) and Kim Son district (Ninh Binh) are now two priviledged districts, worthy of the name is "sea silver", "gold mountain".
Almost everything here is made of stone from the background, walls, columns to the bars .... Unlike other churches with towering architectural styles, Phat Diem churches are architectural in the way of communal houses, pagodas and temples. In order not to deny the values that Vietnamese people always cherish, and to distance themselves between different faiths in the early stages can retreat into the past, Father Tran Luc expected to reproduce the A good traditional symbol, in which Catholics can still worship God with the mind of the Vietnamese, still respects and preserves custom as precious heritage. the price that his father left.