St. Ignatius Cathedral 徐家汇天主堂Xújiāhuì Tiānzhǔtáng

About St. Ignatius Cathedral

The twin-towered Gothic Revival cathedral of Xujiahui, designed by William Doyle and built by French Jesuits between 1906 and 1910 at the heart of the old Zikawei mission, and the seat of the Bishop of Shanghai since 1960. Badly damaged during the Cultural Revolution, it returned to religious use in 1979 and reopened in December 2017 after a restoration of its stonework, windows and floors that took two and a half years.

How to get to St. Ignatius Cathedral

On Puxi Road in Xuhui District, about 300 m from Xujiahui station (Lines 1, 9 and 11).

Nearby

• Former French Concession 原法租界 under 10 km
  Plane-tree streets, garden villas and shikumen lanes for Shanghai's best city walk
• Shanghai Museum 上海博物馆 under 10 km
  Ancient Chinese bronzes, ceramics, painting and jade, now shown at Shanghai Museum East
• Yu Garden & City God Temple 豫园与城隍庙 under 10 km
  A Ming-dynasty garden of rockeries and dragon walls beside a Taoist city temple
• The Bund & Lujiazui Skyline 外滩与陆家嘴 under 10 km
  1920s banks on one bank of the river, a sci-fi skyline on the other
• Lujiazui 陆家嘴 under 10 km
  Shanghai's skyline in a loop of river: spheres, a twisting tower and the Bund opposite

Also within 20 km: Xujiahui Origin heritage area 徐家汇源 (under 10 km), Tomb of Xu Guangqi 徐光启墓 (under 10 km), Early Buildings of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Xuhui Campus) 上海交通大学早期建筑 (under 10 km), Soong Ching-ling Memorial Residence 上海宋庆龄故居 (under 10 km), Longhua Martyrs' Cemetery 龙华烈士陵园 (under 10 km), Soong Ching-ling Mausoleum 宋庆龄陵园 (under 10 km).

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