Pingyao Catholic Church

Pingyao Catholic Church
Pingyao Catholic Church
平遥天主堂
	Pingyao Catholic Church in 2011
	Pingyao Catholic Church Location in Shanxi
	37°12′31″N 112°11′52″E / 37.208615°N 112.19787°E
Location	Pingyao County, Shanxi, China
Denomination	Roman Catholic
History
Status	Church
Founded	1910
Architecture
Functional status	Active
Architectural type	Church building
Style	Romanesque architecture
Specifications
Materials	Granite, bricks
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	平遥天主堂
Traditional Chinese	平遙天主堂
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Píngyáo Tiānzhǔtáng

Pingyao Catholic Church (Chinese: 平遥天主堂) is a Roman Catholic church located in Pingyao County, Shanxi, China.

History

Christianity spread into the country as early as 1886 by an Italian missionary.^[1] The church traces its origins to the former Wudao Temple (五道庙), founded in 1910.^[1] It was severely damaged by the Red Guards during the ten-year Cultural Revolution.^[1] The current version was completed in 1984.^[1] In November 2011, it was inscribed as a municipal cultural relic preservation organ by the Pingyao government.^[1]