nearby food shops: Hongge restaurant, the most beautiful kitchen and fisherman's seafood. Weizhou Island Catholic Church is located in Shengtang Village, Weizhou Island. When you walk to the end of the village, you need to store your car and walk in. The Catholic Church is the most magnificent church in the "Leilian" area in the late Qing Dynasty, hidden in a green banana forest and jackfruit forest. The church was built by missionaries of the Foreign Missionary Society in Paris, France, and was completed in 1881.
Weizhou Island Catholic Church is located in Shengtang Village, Weizhou Island. When you walk to the end of the village, you need to store your car and walk in. The Catholic Church is the most magnificent church in the "Leilian" area in the late Qing Dynasty, hidden in a green banana forest and jackfruit forest. The church was built by missionaries of the Foreign Missionary Society in Paris, France, and was completed in 1881. The church is a Gothic building with a height of 21 meters and a total construction area of 774 square meters, with a total area of more than 2,111 square meters including ancillary buildings. It is the largest Catholic church in the coastal areas of Guangxi. Its construction is related to the Qing government's "reopening of the island ban" on Weizhou and the opportunity for the French to preach on the island. In the Qing Dynasty, the Qing government issued a "forever ban" order because Weizhou Island was "isolated in the sea, and it was the easiest to hide traitors". In the sixth year of Tongzhi in Qing Dynasty (1867), the Qing government "reopened the island ban" on Weizhou, and the French Foreign Missionary Society in Paris took this opportunity to send French priests to preach on the island.
There is a stone spiral staircase with more than 11 steps in the bell tower, which only allows one person to spiral up to the second floor. There is a silver alloy clock cast in 1889 hanging on the top floor. It is said that it was given by a French widow, and the bells of that year could spread all over Weizhou Island. Every Sunday morning, the bell ringer rings the church bell on the second floor. When the believers in Shengtang Village and its neighbors hear the bell, they will consciously and quietly step into the prayer hall. Sunlight shines through the stained glass behind the altar and the large arched windows on both sides of the hall, making the interior of the church look colorful. In this "light of heaven", believers listen to the repentance of "God" devoutly.
Every morning at eleven o'clock in the morning and at 3: 31 in the afternoon, there are half an hour to sing poems. The beautiful and holy Catholics' heavenly singing makes the whole world quiet.
concentrate on sitting still, let my heart face myself, and slowly settle down at this moment. All this solemnity gives me the strength to walk inward.