Notre Dame Cathedral, Ho Chi Minh City

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Saigon Notre-Dame Basilica, officially Basilica of Our Lady of The Immaculate Conception is a cathedral located in the downtown of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Established by French colonists, the cathedral was constructed between 1863 and 1880. -Wikipedia

The Basilica is really buautiful. It opens at 3pm. Lots of couple have a pre-nuptial photoshoot there! :)

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Notre dame Cathedral is one of the best churches I've ever seen! No wonder why it's gorgeous since it was designed by the same person responsible for the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France. After a long walk from Pham Ngu Lao road, finally we arrived in this place. All the sweat suddenly dried off when I saw the church.

They say that whenever you visit a new church, whatever wish you say or pray; it will come true. Well, I believe in it¡K after all it's all up to HIM if I deserve it.

My friends and I were very excited to take a look inside. There was a church staff that allowed us to go in the inner part of the church. At the left side were statues of Jesus, Mary and other saints. At the entrance, there¡¦s an old woman that sells rosaries and candles. At first I didn't have any intention to buy any of those but when I thought of my very religious grandmother, mother and relatives I decided to buy anyway. We met an old local man who's known to the vendor, he's very friendly. We chit chat then when we finished buying rosaries and some candles he offered us that he can have our rosaries blessed by the priest... that was really kind of him. I asked for his name¡K and now I can't remember even the first letter (memory loss).

There are lots of wedding pictorials done outside the church. It has a very nice effect as background picture:)

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The Notre Dame Cathedral is located in the centre of Ho Chi Minh City, and is one of France’s most ambitious projects in Indochina. The first stone for the Cathedral was laid in 1877 and 3 years later it was opened to the public. The bricks were shipped from Marseilles, and famous French artisans were commissioned to create the stained glass windows. The bell towers were added to the Cathedral in 1895, and have a height of 58 meters. I have read that it is possible to climb the bell towers for a nice view of Ho Chi Minh City (but I didn’t).

At the beginning, the cathedral was called “State Cathedral” due to source of the construction cost (2.5 million French francs). In 1962, the Vatican gave the Cathedral the title Basilica and since then the name has been “Saigon Notre-Dame Cathedral Basilica”.

I didn’t go inside the Cathedral, but just enjoyed the magnificent building from outside. In front of the Cathedral is a statue of the Virgin Mary. The white granite statue was erected in 1959 and has the title “Regina Pacis”. Locals swear that they on occasions have seen the statue shed tears...

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The Cathedral known as Nha Tho Duc Ba. Built in the late 19th Century from local stone then covered with red ceramic tiles shipped from France it is the largest Church built in the French empire. It was completed in 1880 and was the tallest structure in the city. It originally had stained glass windows brought over from Chartres but these were destroyed during World War II and they were replaced with plain glass.
The statue of the Virgin Mary, which was made in Rome, was added in the 1950’s.

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final part of my Notre Dame Church Multi- Tips more pictures around the inside area of the Church

Vietnam has the second largest roman catholic population in asia, of which the largest is in the philippines and the third in Timor leste due to the various missionaries coming from the then spanish colony, the philippines and by the french during colonization in the 1800's.

It is the seat of the Roman Catholic church in the city and there are about 8% of vietnam's population are Roman Catholics. The neo-Romanesque structure has two 40 metre iron spired towers and was built between 1877 and 1883 by the French with the stone ship from France .The church is one of the tallest buildings in the city and the oldest Catholic churches in Vietnam.

The first church was built on Rue 5 (today's Ngo Duc Ke Street). This had been a Vietnamese pagoda, which had been abandoned during the war. Bishop Lefevre decided to make this pagoda a church. The first church was too small, thus in 1863, Admiral Bonard decided to build a wooden church on the bank of Charner canal (Kinh Lớn). Lefevre put the first stone for construction of the church on 28 March 1863. The construction was completed in 1865 and was called "Saigon Church" but it was burn down and construction of the present concrete church finished in October 1877. This is one of the landmarks among the impressive avenues and open spaces north of Dong Khoi. The huge red-brick edifice with twin spires is placed between two streams of traffic and is a clear reminder that the French once ruled this city. Inside, the decor is relatively austere, but the church gets very full and very lively during services

Opens: 9:30am-11am Sun (Mass).

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part one of my Notre Dame Church Multi- Tips more pictures around the inside area of the Church

Vietnam has the second largest roman catholic population in asia, of which the largest is in the philippines and the third in Timor leste due to the various missionaries coming from the then spanish colony, the philippines and by the french during colonization in the 1800's.

It is the seat of the Roman Catholic church in the city and there are about 8% of vietnam's population are Roman Catholics. The neo-Romanesque structure has two 40 metre iron spired towers and was built between 1877 and 1883 by the French with the stone ship from France .The church is one of the tallest buildings in the city and the oldest Catholic churches in Vietnam.

The first church was built on Rue 5 (today's Ngo Duc Ke Street). This had been a Vietnamese pagoda, which had been abandoned during the war. Bishop Lefevre decided to make this pagoda a church. The first church was too small, thus in 1863, Admiral Bonard decided to build a wooden church on the bank of Charner canal (Kinh Lớn). Lefevre put the first stone for construction of the church on 28 March 1863. The construction was completed in 1865 and was called "Saigon Church" but it was burn down and construction of the present concrete church finished in October 1877. This is one of the landmarks among the impressive avenues and open spaces north of Dong Khoi. The huge red-brick edifice with twin spires is placed between two streams of traffic and is a clear reminder that the French once ruled this city. Inside, the decor is relatively austere, but the church gets very full and very lively during services

Opens: 9:30am-11am Sun (Mass).

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part two of my Notre Dame Church Multi- Tips more pictures around outside area of the Church

Vietnam has the second largest roman catholic population in asia, of which the largest is in the philippines and the third in Timor leste due to the various missionaries coming from the then spanish colony, the philippines and by the french during colonization in the 1800's.

It is the seat of the Roman Catholic church in the city and there are about 8% of vietnam's population are Roman Catholics. The neo-Romanesque structure has two 40 metre iron spired towers and was built between 1877 and 1883 by the French with the stone ship from France .The church is one of the tallest buildings in the city and the oldest Catholic churches in Vietnam.

The first church was built on Rue 5 (today's Ngo Duc Ke Street). This had been a Vietnamese pagoda, which had been abandoned during the war. Bishop Lefevre decided to make this pagoda a church. The first church was too small, thus in 1863, Admiral Bonard decided to build a wooden church on the bank of Charner canal (Kinh Lớn). Lefevre put the first stone for construction of the church on 28 March 1863. The construction was completed in 1865 and was called "Saigon Church" but it was burn down and construction of the present concrete church finished in October 1877. This is one of the landmarks among the impressive avenues and open spaces north of Dong Khoi. The huge red-brick edifice with twin spires is placed between two streams of traffic and is a clear reminder that the French once ruled this city. Inside, the decor is relatively austere, but the church gets very full and very lively during services

Opens: 9:30am-11am Sun (Mass).

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this will be a multi part tip with more pictures in and around the Church

Vietnam has the second largest roman catholic population in asia, of which the largest is in the philippines and the third in Timor leste due to the various missionaries coming from the then spanish colony, the philippines and by the french during colonization in the 1800's.

It is the seat of the Roman Catholic church in the city and there are about 8% of vietnam's population are Roman Catholics. The neo-Romanesque structure has two 40 metre iron spired towers and was built between 1877 and 1883 by the French with the stone ship from France .The church is one of the tallest buildings in the city and the oldest Catholic churches in Vietnam.

The first church was built on Rue 5 (today's Ngo Duc Ke Street). This had been a Vietnamese pagoda, which had been abandoned during the war. Bishop Lefevre decided to make this pagoda a church. The first church was too small, thus in 1863, Admiral Bonard decided to build a wooden church on the bank of Charner canal (Kinh Lớn). Lefevre put the first stone for construction of the church on 28 March 1863. The construction was completed in 1865 and was called "Saigon Church" but it was burn down and construction of the present concrete church finished in October 1877. This is one of the landmarks among the impressive avenues and open spaces north of Dong Khoi. The huge red-brick edifice with twin spires is placed between two streams of traffic and is a clear reminder that the French once ruled this city. Inside, the decor is relatively austere, but the church gets very full and very lively during services

Opens: 9:30am-11am Sun (Mass).

I don't know how many people has visited this Church, I used to go every Sunday to the church kept many petitions and prayed to Mother Mary, my petitions were answered and received many blessings, so i kindly request everyone who visit to this church keep your petitions and pray sure you will receive the blessing from Mother Mary, For a long time i want to write a note, but today i need to tell others with the blessing i am receiving, if i don't proclaim it, how will others know about this.............

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The Notre Dame is a cathedral located in downtown of Saigon and was built by French colonists between 1863 and 1880. It has two bell towers, with a crucifix both at its peak. The walls are made of bricks and there is a flower garden outside with a statue of the Blessed Mother.