St. Ignatius Cathedral

St. Ignatius Cathedral

  • The St. Ignatius Cathedra

St. Ignatius Cathedral or Xujiahui Cathedral is the largest Roman Catholic cathedral with a history of over 90 years. It is located in the Xujiahui district to the north of  Shanghai Stadium.

The cathedral was originally built in 1906, but was destroyed during the Cultural Revolution; it has just recently been restored to its original beauty. As a missionary center, the cathedral grounds once included a library, an orphanage, a college, a publishing house, and its own weather station. Today only the church, part of the school, and the recently reopened library remain. Its vast interior of altars, stone columns, Gothic ceilings, stained glass windows, and paintings of the Last Supper and Stations of the Cross are yet another chapter in Shanghai's living history of European architecture. Services are available every Sunday morning. See famous churches and mosques in China.

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Address: No.6 Caoxibei Lu

How to get there: Take the subway to Xujiahui station, and get off at Caoxibei Lu

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In the 1930s I went to the kindergarten at the Girls cathral School, Shanghai, when we lived in Rue Ratard. Does the school still exist?
Asked by Ian Caulfeild Grant (Jun. 19, 2010) Reply
A Vanessa Zheng (Jul. 07, 2010) replied:
Hi Ian Caulfeild Grant,

I have searched this kindergarten for you on the internet, but there is no result. And I have also checked with some local Shanghai people about it, they don't know it either. Probably, it doesn’t exit, or changes its name to another kindergarten.

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