Tan Dinh Church
Tân Định Catholic Church, Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh
Tân Định church is a Roman Catholic church in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Its formal name is the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Even though it is in District 3, the parish shares its name with neighbouring District 1's Tân Định Ward.
It was built during the French colonial period in the 1870s and completed on 16 December 1876, when Vietnam was part of French Indochina. The architecture is mainly neo-Romanesque, but it also has some neo-Gothic and neo-Renaissance elements. It has been painted pastel-pink both on the exterior and interior since 1957, earning it the nickname "the pink church".
Photo: Suicasmo (CC BY-SA 4.0); Prof MK (CC BY-SA 4.0); Tungwuqing (CC BY-SA 4.0)
It was built during the French colonial period in the 1870s and completed on 16 December 1876, when Vietnam was part of French Indochina. The architecture is mainly neo-Romanesque, but it also has some neo-Gothic and neo-Renaissance elements. It has been painted pastel-pink both on the exterior and interior since 1957, earning it the nickname "the pink church".
Photo: Suicasmo (CC BY-SA 4.0); Prof MK (CC BY-SA 4.0); Tungwuqing (CC BY-SA 4.0)