With his sweet-sounding voice and wide knowledge of Catholic history and the 110-year-old church, An will make tourists feel like they are travelling back in time when discovering the relic, some 130 kilometres south of Hanoi.
Most notable is the church’s bell, which is 1.9 meters tall and two tons heavy. The bell’s sounds can be heard for as much as 10 kilometres.
The rest of the church is made from stone and wood. An says it took 10 years to gather all the stone and the wood from the forest in Phat Diem Town to prepare for building the church.
The bell is made from bronze and some gold which the church’s devout followers collected by donating their jewellery to be melted to cast the bell
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