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Monday, October 27, 2014
Tuesday, October 21, 2014
SPD4459 Destinations - St John's Cathedral (聖約翰座堂)
Welcome back to SPD4459 Destinations in Central and Western District Blog!! #SPD4459
Hello everybody!! This is Piggie again! Today we are going to explore one of the classic cathedral in Hong Kong. Time to have a historical lesson with you all!
The St. John's Cathedral (聖約翰座堂), officially The Cathedral Church of St. John the Evangelist is located at 4 Garden Road, Central, which is an Anglican cathedral in Hong Kong. It is the Diocesan cathedral of the Diocese of Hong Kong Island and the focus of the Province of Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui (香港聖公會). It also the Archbishop of Hong Kong.
From the outside of the building, you can already see the building style of the English Gothic architecture. This style was flourished in England from about 1180 until about 1520.
As you can see from the pictures below, The design is well known with its pointed arch(lancet) characteristic. Pointed arches were
used almost universally, not only in arches of wide span such as those of the nave arcade,
but also for doorways and lancet windows.
Meanwhile, the cathedral also held a lot of interesting event such as Cathedral Choir, Evensong Choir and sermons everyday and week. You will definately have a good time and relax you mind in the cathedral .
The cathedral would be a good place to chill in such a busy distrist and after the whole sightseeing day, aspecially for those who were obsessed of classical architecture and religious history.
Hope you enjoy the cathedral and make sure that you keep following our update for more new and fascinating destination. See you next time!
Please visit http://www.stjohnscathedral.org.hk/ to get more information ! !
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