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Phat
Diem Cathedral is 130 kilometers South of Hanoi. A priest named Tran
Luc built it between 1875 and 1899 The Cathedral is 74 metres long and 21 metres wide. It has four roofs resting on six ranks of wood pillars. The two middle ranks have 16 pillars each eleven metres high, 2.35m in circumference. Each of them is the trunk of a single tree. The high altar was cut in a single block of stone (3 metres long, 90 centimetres large and 80 centimetres high) and carved on its three sides. The back of the high altar is made of chiselled wocdworks lacquered and gilt On
both sides of the Cathedral four Chapels mount the guard of honour.
Each one has a
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