Nha Tho street - A daily life street in Hanoi

Both ancient and modern, the integration between the two cultural forms old make Nha Tho street that became extraordinary.

Hanoi has long sinuous streets, but also the small street just a few hundred meters long and always seem to contain many interesting and unique things to remember. Nha Tho (Church) street also in the list of such streets. It is known as a place that contains many interesting and special.

 

Church Street is always busy foreign tourists visited

Streets located not far from Hoan Kiem lake, next to Hang Hanh street. Although street no words "Hang" on the head but people still ranks Nha Tho street in the old town of Hanoi.

Short and small city, but never deserted. Here, we encounter more opposition between two very unique form of new and old culture, both conscious system Buddhist religion and Christianity. It is easy to know which is more than the contrast between two schools of Eastern and Western architecture.

Besides the classical style house float waving moss odor of time, you will easily feel the squeeze of architecture and modern Western. The luxurious cafe or fast food restaurants serving foreign guests grew close together. The idea this would lose the historic character of this famous street, but it seems that the familiar harmony between two opposite styles that make distinctions of re Church Street.

Hanoi minster is ancient and grave

Called Nha Tho street because there's Hanoi minster. The church was inaugurated on Christmas in 1887 and known for the most typical and characteristic of the art of medieval architecture with curved arches, wide, toward the top of heaven, get light. With the architecture, will certainly realize that the church was built in line with impressive Gothic architecture patterns, characteristic patterns.

This architecture has always impressed on a solemn religious space. Each year when Christmas is here again to become more vibrant than ever. The christian believer come up here to welcome a new Christmas wish good prayer for life.

It also Ba Da pagoda, also known under the name Linh Tu pagoda. Ba Da pagoda is located at 3 Nha Tho street. Today, the temple is the headquarters of the Buddhist association of Hanoi City.


Today, Nha Tho street youth also known as a place where there are many delicious and popular cuisine. The fermented pork roll fry (Vietnamese meaning: nem chua nướng) of Ms Thanh was 85-year-old . This place is always crowded at any time of day.

Do not know the shop of fermented pork roll fry appear here , the young of Ha Thanh just know that ten years living in Hanoi, they knew shop of fermented pork roll fry, and this place became gathering points often their stories with no beginning no end.

Whenever sunset falls, the area around the church has become more robust. Despite sitting nestled between small cramped seats, nobody is sad, irritable or complain. Both the bustling streets by happy laughter, conversation, the call up ... same idea as being a small Hanoi show up in your eyes ...

Cua Bac church- the famous chuch in Hanoi

The church is officially called Queen of the Catholic saint, from meaning Virgin Mary is the Queen all saints. Later we called  for short Mary Hanoi church and also is next Cua Bac of Thang Long citadel should also familiar called Cua Bac church. 

Cua Bac church was built from 1925 to 1930 on parcels of land stretching along the city streets, Phan Dinh Phung and Nguyen Bieu street.

The church includes a large rectangular space with two long parallel columns with the two sides, is divided into a relatively small space and a welcoming space for a  pastor solemn ceremony .

Between these two regions is a major transitional space below the dome, the space must be a worship of saints, the left is the reception room of the pastor. Interior space is made and decorated entirely European-style church.

French architect: Ernest Hébrard has created an architectural space a non-symmetrical with bell tower soaring high side of the main hall. This makes Cua Bac church has special characteristics compared with most Christian works in the form of symmetric which the French usually built in Vietnam.

There are authors that this is the special creation of Hébrard to create the suitable landscape areas but essentially this is just a clever way to exploit a combination of church principles of the Renaissance, the so that Cua Bac church, outside the bell tower as a point also has a dome in the center.
 
Roof system is drawn from the dome through bell tower to the main and auxiliary space makes us see a familiar landscape as it was caught in the traditional temple, pagoda of Vietnamese villages .
 
System windows, doors get light and ventilation are processed against rain and sun sneezing, except for doors and decorative lighting from large glass optical block, maximizing the system of green plants making the landscape more closely, friendly nature. 

 
The combination of traditional architectural  with other forms of Eastern church decorated with traditional harmony of the natural landscape around has created an impression of Christian works. Therefore, Cua Bac church has always been considered as typical architectural style combining European and Vietnam.
 
Nearly a century elapsed, also repaired several times over but so today, Cua Bac church still retain the ancient definition, pristine.