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Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Beijing
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🇨🇳 Beijing, China · Roman Catholic · 1904 Open now

Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Beijing

The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, known as the Nantang or South Cathedral, stands on the site where the pioneering Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci built a chapel in 1605, making it the oldest Catholic church in Beijing. The present Baroque-influenced building dates from 1904, rebuilt after fire and the destruction of the Boxer Uprising.

As the cathedral of the Archdiocese of Beijing, it has long been the focal point of Catholic life in the capital and a place where the meeting of Chinese and European traditions is felt in stone and liturgy.

Annual visitors
≈ 200,000
Local time
06:37 (Asia/Shanghai)

🕘 Visiting hours

Mon–Sun 06:00–17:00

Daily Mass in Chinese and other languages.

Saints & blessed venerated here

  • Matteo Ricci Blessed

    Jesuit missionary whose 1605 chapel stood on this site; cause for canonisation opened

Care & donations

Archdiocese of Beijing

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