Shengnigulasi Church Review

This area of Shanghai Internet celebrity! It's not the same thing today! It was the 1930s and 1930s alone! St. Nicholas Church, an Orthodox church, is now transformed into Sinan Book Bureau Poetry Store located at No. 16, Shanghai, Shanghai's excellent historical building, with an operating area of about 560 square meters, the first bookstore to dig deep in the vertical field of the new physical bookstore. Reading books, watching architecture and looking for history are all done in one stop! [View] [Fun] [Cost-effective]

Attraction Name: Sinan Bookstore Poetry Shop (St. Nicholas Church) Location: No. 16, Gaolan Road. Opposite is Sinan Kindergarten, there are the former site of French School, Zhang Xueliang's former residence and other public transportation: Under the Huaihai Middle Road Station of Metro Line 13, under the Ruijin 2nd Road Station of Huaihai Middle Road 920 and 926 Road: free, it is recommended to register members Friendly reminder: You can't bring your camera to shoot the building characteristics: Small Orthodox church, distinctive Byzantine architecture, sitting west to east, Orthodox layout, sail arch onion head, around the dome-style wall top symmetrically forward, back, left, right lower. Each wall is mostly a vertical window in the middle, the window top is set with semi-circular arched colorful glass. The interior walls are made of colored tiles, with holy statues on the walls and vaults. Architecture: In 1932, Russians raised funds to commemorate the late Tsar Nicholas II. Designed by Xielong Yanghang Russian architect Ya Yi Yalong, Changsheng Construction Factory was completed in 1934. On March 31, the church was inaugurated for consecration. In 1955, the church was closed and the upper dome was destroyed during the Cultural Revolution and changed to a factory. In 1999, it was overhauled, repaired the upper dome, redrawn the dome, four wall paintings, and converted into a French restaurant. Due to the technical level of the year, there were many errors and omissions, and there was no complete restoration of the appearance of the year. Later, the Orthodox Church on the Orchid Road was announced by the Shanghai Municipal People's Government as a municipal building protection unit. The French restaurant withdrew the church, the church was vacant, and a small cafe was opened outside. Architecture today: the century Duoyun group with deep cultural heritage, in the church of St. Nicholas began the fourth physical bookstore (Sinan Book Bureau Poetry Store), this transformation by the architect Yuan Ting design completed, it with metal-color punch plate as a installation bookshelf, build an inner wall, With the internal wall of the building tens of centimeters gap, it is very good to protect the original appearance of the construction, so that the original recognition of the building is completely preserved, for the future protection and utilization of ancient buildings to provide a model.

Built in 1928, this church is located on a quiet corner of Sinan Road, Qilan Road, one of the earliest Orthodox churches in Shanghai. It is said to be converted into a bookstore and is currently under renovation.

I have been finding it here from Tianzifang and Baidu map. The scale is not big, just a building, it used to be a small church, and the appearance is not very picky. But is it a bookstore or a coffee shop now? Anyway, there are a lot of people, and there is not much religious atmosphere left, but walking in the outer corridor is the seating area of the coffee shop is still a bit gloomy.

It has only been closed and reopened in recent years, and now it is a bookstore and coffee shop.

St. Nicholas Church on the road is an Orthodox church. This area belongs to the French concession in old Shanghai, and until the October Revolution in Russia, there were more and more Russians here, so the church was built, and St. Nicholas Church is one of them. In my memory, Shanghai seems to have only rebuilt and relocated churches in recent years, and has not built new churches or mosques. Shanghai, as an international metropolis of Hainabaichuan, if one or two churches or mosques are built, it will definitely be known to the world. Deepening the globalization of urban religion and humanities.