Introduction to the attractions of Wanghailou Church:

Wanghailou Church, located on the north bank of Haihe River in Sanchakou area, is a famous Tianjin religious planning site in the modern history of China. There used to be a watchtower here, which was built in the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty. This used to be the place where the Qing emperors visited Tianjin. Vehicles and boats meet and vendors gather in this area, which is the main road of land and water transportation. There are temples with strong incense such as Chongxi Temple and Wanghai Temple next to Wanghai Building.

Wanghailou is located at the side of Shizilin Bridge in Hebei District, formerly known as Notre Dame Victory Hall. Tongzhi eight years (1869) was built by the French Catholic Church. 1870 in June, the French Catholic church abducted and maimed children, and the church was burned by the people of Tianjin. This is the burning watchtower in folklore, which is an anti-imperialist struggle with anti-Westernism as the core, and is called Tianjin religious case in history. After the incident, the Qing government killed 16 patriots and paid 402,000 yuan in compensation. 1897 the French Catholic church rebuilt the church. 1900 During the Boxer Movement, the church was burned down for the second time. 1904 two repairs. The original church was in the form of Notre Dame de Paris, a Gothic building with brick and wood structure. There are three towers in front, in the shape of pens, with a bell tower in the middle. 1The Tangshan earthquake was severely damaged in July, 1976, and it was repaired in June, 1983. Wanghailou Church has been listed as a national key cultural relic protection unit by 1988.

This church was built by French Catholics in June 1869 at the fork in the road outside the concession. It is a large building, also known as the Catholic Great Hall or Notre Dame de Victory. Brick-wood structure, with a height of10m, a length of 30m and a width of10m, with a rectangular plane. Except for the tower, most buildings have two floors, with blue brick walls and pointed arched doors and windows. There are buttresses on both sides of the entrance and three corridors inside. The middle corridor is slightly higher, followed by the side corridor, which belongs to the hall type. There was also a flat-topped tower, and later a small corner building was built at the four corners of the chapel. This church has a Gothic style.

After the Second Opium War, Britain, France and other countries forced the Qing government to sign the "Beijing Treaty", which humiliated the country and gave France the right to rent and buy land and build it on its own in various provinces of China. 1862, the French seized the permanent lease right of Wanghailou area 15 mu of Fiona Fang. 1896 65438+In February, the French missionary Xie Gospel demolished the celebration view and built a large-scale Catholic church on the original site. This is a typical Gothic building, rectangular, with three bell towers in front, like three pen containers. French missionaries named the church after the victory of the Virgin Mary, and carved the name on the marble in front of the church bell tower in French. The local people call this church Wanghailou Church.

/kloc-in the summer of 0/870, 30 or 40 children were tortured to death in the mercy church just across the river from Wanghailou church because of the abuse of French missionaries and nuns and the epidemic plague at that time. Subsequently, the bodies of these children were buried in the wilderness at will, many of them were exposed on the ground, wild dogs competed for food, and their limbs were scattered and terrible. At that time, there were several incidents of child abduction in Tianjin. After the criminals were arrested, they all confessed to being instructed by members of Wanghailou Church. As a result, Tianjin people's long-simmering hatred of the invaders finally subsided, academies began to close, gentry gathered in succession, and anti-Westernization posters quickly spread all over the streets. On June 2 1 day, thousands of people demonstrated in front of Wanghailou Church. Uncle Feng, the French consul who has always ignored the people of China, stormed into the trade yamen with his secretary Simon. When he saw the three trading giants, he swore, threatened and threatened, and smashed all the furnishings in his home. On his way home, Uncle Feng shot Liu Jie, the magistrate of Tianjin. Liu Jie dodged, and the bullet wounded his entourage. Simon also shot and threatened the crowd. The people present were furious and killed Uncle Feng and Simon on the spot. Subsequently, gongs gathered to attack Wanghailou Church, killing more than 20 monks and nuns, including Xie, and setting fire to Wanghailou Church, French Consulate and Charity Hall. This is the process of the religious plan in Tianjin.

1897, the imperialists rebuilt it with the compensation of the Qing government, 1900, which was burnt down for the second time in the boxer movement. The existing Wanghailou Church was rebuilt for the third time in the 30th year of Guangxu (1904). The shape of the building has not changed, and the plane is rectangular, with a length of 30m and a width of10m. There are three towers on the front, which are in the shape of a pen rack; There are two rows of parallel courtyards in the interior, which are three-gallery-style, without compartments and mezzanines; The inner window is a pointed arch, and the window surface is composed of multicolored glass geometric patterns; The floor tiles are luxuriously decorated. They were severely damaged in the Tangshan earthquake in July. 1976. Now, Wanghailou has become one of the national key protected cultural relics.