Xizhimen Catholic

Also known as Our Lady of Mount Caramel Church Xizhimen Church, commonly known as West Hall, Beijing ranked one of the four Church, located in Xizhimen Street, Xicheng District, Beijing, No. 130, is the shortest in the history of Beijing four Catholic smallest one, is the four Catholic the only one not built by the Jesuit church.

West Hall Forty-four years old photos Kangxi grid rib Meng Pope sent more than XI Cardinal Law as a special envoy said China declared the Pope Decree. Doro Bishop suites, Italian missionary miso MG Rodriguez priest (Teodoricus Pedrini ,1670-1746) by the Kangxi emperor's appointment as Professor Prince Western teachers specifically, the priest then Rodriguez will stay in China. Beijing Tour Rodriguez in the first year of Yongzheng Xizhimen to purchase land to build a Xizhimen Church, and has been engaged in missionary work here until December 10, 1764 died.

Because of Rodriguez created Xizhimen Church priest is appointed by the Ministry of Law Ma Chuanxin clergy, and therefore directly under the Holy See, the West Hall. Beijing's other three are four Catholic Jesuits were created, until 1773 the Pope announced the outcome after the dissolution of the Jesuit Jazz Fellow assigned to the jurisdiction of miso, a church directly under the Holy See.

Xizhimen Church is a typical Gothic building with a three-story spire towers.

Jiaqing sixteen years, the Qing government issued a decree prohibited the Catholic, the Catholic missionaries who served in addition to the government, but withheld living capital, and not allowed to engage in missionary activities, the same year the four Xizhimen Catholic priests were expelled, Xizhimen Church were removed, No real estate search.

After the Second Opium War in 1860, according to the Qing government and Britain and France and other countries agreed to restore the rights of Catholic activities in China, because excommunication of reason, to Xianfeng had been changed on the West Hall houses many years, so that no one knows There also was a large-scale Catholic Church, in Xianfeng decade, Britain and France and other countries foreigners asked the Qing government to return when the Waqf, Xianfeng Emperor issued a "thing two studies where" question. According to the "whole story organized barbarian" records, step Jun Tongling Yamen Feng Xianfeng Emperor of the West Church life mission to find "Xizhimen cross-bridge, there is a powder room, officials room and other rooms eighteen rows of ovary. Behind the empty hospital, four to about sixteen ten feet to zero. and Han Chan, Liu all the people who house, are in the Old West Church-based "Tongzhi years Xizhimen Catholic Church reconstruction completed in 1900, the outbreak of the Boxer Rebellion, June 15 Xizhimen Church has been destroyed by the Boxers, Since then until 1923, the third in-situ reconstruction Xizhimen Church.

Xizhimen Church was confiscated during the Cultural Revolution, has been has been used as a button factory, fans Tong Ren Tang Pharmaceutical Factory and warehouse. During the three-story church bell tower has been removed, has not been rebuilt. In 1994, West Hall re-opened, restored the normal religious activities.

In West Hall entrance walls, inlaid with a stone records the history of the Western Church.

Our Lady of Mount Caramel Church converted Inscription
Theft eternal dimension holy church, thousands of common people economy Yi Hung
Waste Hing Shing Yi Ren Ci Lingyou Lord of the removal of the Yan
The priest Delhi grid at one thousand seven hundred and twenty
Three years alone lost heavily in the construction procurement Chomsky Christine
Church Our Lady of seven suffered a one thousand eight hundred and ten year
Kidnapped appropriate Jiaqing whole Church was destroyed between the holy church, the cause of
To one thousand eight hundred and sixty seven bishops Mengmu management
Weight of the system to build a macro-scale work, a new Ju Ju meaning
1900 years of June 15 were Boxers
Disaster parish priest killed gold courtyard a Taiwan Yu-Ju
Exhaustive nineteen hundred years the Sisters of Charity
Fu Bo Lang donated Gebrselassie's new [and Blade] this name more
Completion date is Beijing bishop ordered to mark Le Dan
Dianmoyuner
One thousand nine hundred ten calendar February 2003 Le Dan
D. O. M.
TEODORICUS PEDRINI. PRESB. CONGR. MISS., INFAN-
TIUM IMPERATORIS KANGHSI PRAECEPTOR, AN. DOM. 1723
HUNC FUNDUM PROPRIO ?RE EMIT, IN EOQUE ECCLESIAM
SUB AUSPICIIS SEPTEM DOLORUM BMV DEO DEDICAVIT,
QU? TEMPORE PERSECUTIONIS KIATSING (1811) FUNDI-
TUS EST DESTRUCTA.
POSTEA AD 1867, ILL. DD. MOULY, CM, HIC NOVUM SA-
CRUM ?DIFICAVIT. QUOD DIE 15 JUNII 1900 BOXORES
FLAMMIS TRADIDERUNT, DUM PAROCHUM ECCLESI?
MAURITIUM DORE, C. M. SACERDOTEM CRUDELITER
TRUCIDANT.
TANDEM, ANNO DOMINI 1912 LARGITATE BENEMERIT?
ROSALI? BRANSSIER, SOCIETATIS PUELLARUM CA-
RITATIS, TERTIA H?C ECCLESIA SUB TITULO BM DE
MONTE CARMELO ?DIFICATA EST.
IN QUORUM MEMORIAM ILL. DD. JARLIN, CM, VIC. AP.
PEKINESIS, HUNC LAPIDEM EREXIT.

Now Xizhimen internal Xizhimen Catholic Church as Gothic architecture, smaller, had built a three-story height of the spire bell tower, clock tower removed since the Cultural Revolution, the only remaining in a church north of the main building floor height octagonal piers, Beijing Xingang Port Tour the church building surface is covered by dense ivy, the whole church against the background of the surrounding buildings look quite ordinary, but inside the church steeple tall Corinthian columns and make the ticket window view from inside the church is still tall and gorgeous. Now the church is leaning against the front of the original north wall of the north wall then out of the Virgin was built in the mountain gate, the only one of Beijing was built in the room of the Virgin Mountains.