Santa Cruz Church

Santa Cruz Church is a church of the Portuguese Christian community. It was built on the land that King Taksin the Great gave to Father Gor in 1769. The current church is the third church built in 1913 by Father Gulielmo Guin da Cruz to replace the original church that had deteriorated. Construction began in 1913 and was completed and consecrated on September 17, 1916. Artistic characteristics Santa Cruz Church faces the Chao Phraya River. The plan of the church is a rectangle with a hexagonal eaves. The building is in the Renaissance Revival style. The roof is made of wood and tiled. The front has three doorways. The roof is arched and decorated with round windows with a rose petal pattern. In the center is a tall bell tower with an oval dome. The top is a cross. The eaves are hexagonal with a hip roof and tiled roof. Inside, there is a lofty ceiling filled with star-shaped ceiling patterns in square spaces. Inside, there is a wooden cross. Behind is a classic gable roof decorated with Corinthian stucco. #placestovisitnearbangkok#centralregionteam