St. Ignatius Cathedral

Located at No.158 Puxi Road, St. Ignatius Cathedral was designed by British architect W. M. Dowdall and was completed in December 1910. It is a two-tower building of typical European medieval Gothic style. The cathedral has a brick-and-wood structure, and its plane is of the Latin cross style. Longitudinally, the basilica-style cathedral is composed of a front hall, a middle hall and a back hall, above which is the choir floor. Laterally, the cathedral has a south hall and a north hall. Inside the cathedral stand 64 columns. The middle hall is three floors high, with the two sides relatively low (two floors high). On each outer side of the west aisle are a row of small prayer rooms; the back part features a half-octagon layout, and at the middle is a high altar made of marble, with Madonna on the top. St. Ignatius Cathedral was announced by the State Council as one of the seventh batch of National Key Cultural Relics Protection Units on March 5, 2013.