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Referring to Ninh Binh,
perhaps, a place is not least unique with the other
place, it is "Phat Diem stone cathedral". "Phat Diem
stone cathedral" is a clever combination of East and
West architecture. It is located in Phat Diem town,Kim
Son district.
"Phat Diem stone cathedral" is not the world's greatest
religious works or the most sophisticated, but, the
architecture of this place can be ranked as masterpiece
of Catholicism. A whole of church was built from stone
and wood , it is a perfect combination between gothic
architecture of West and pagoda architecture of VietNam.
The architecture of Church is beared East's style with
the concept "water in front, mountain in behind". A pond
in front of the church, it is under Asia's style, with
the status of God on the island. Behind in back of the
church is "Kim Son mountain". The church is a
combination of architectural layers: "a pond, Phuong
dinh house, cathedral, artificial caves and stone
cathedral"
"stone cathedral" was almost made of stone with
beautiful reliefs. From the outside, we are surprised
with the carvings, the column stone with motifs are pine
tree,chrysanthemum, flute,ochna. All of them are beared
Asia's style. More interesting when we step inside, we
surprised with red and yellow like a pagoda of Viet Nam.
It made uniqueness for this church. "Cathedral" is
beared Western's style, it has high-pitched roofs with
bold imprints gothic architecture with large ironwood
column,
"Phuong Dinh" is the last works completed of "Phat Diem
stone cathedral". This is a place where the most heavy
bell is hung. In the past, the bell was beat up, its
sound can be heard as far as three provinces: Nam Dinh,
Ninh Binh and Thanh Hoa. Although house - bell is beared
Western's style," Phuong Dinh" has full of "three
gates", the architect of VietNam's style and its name
means "square house"
As far as we know the ancient Vietnamese workers have
been very hard to complete this works: 10 years to
prepare and 24 years to built.
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