Kon Tum Wooden Church, located on Nguyen Hue Street, Kon Tum City, is a unique architecture of wooden materials and good fine-arts.
The church was built from 1913 to 1918, initiated by a French priest, with hundreds of cubic meters of such high-quality wood as rose-wood and ca chit, a valuable wood once growing in abundance across the Central Highlands but rather rare these days. The church's architecture combines Roman and Gothic arches and features of Viet Nam's Central Highlands styles. The whole structure stands one meter above the ground on wooden pillars like many hill tribes' houses and communal houses (nha rong). The church's inside was also decorated in the Central Highlands style to make it suitable to the traditional culture of the people in the region.
The church stands on a vast area with various closed-loop works: church, lounge, exhibition centre of ethnic groups and religions, communal house. Besides, there are also an orphanage, a brocade weaving and sewing facility and a carpentry workshop.
Kon Tum
Add: 30 Bach Dang St., Kon Tum City
Tel: (84-260) 3863 334
Add: 529 Nguyen Hue St., Kon Tum City
Tel: (84-260) 3865 845
Tel: (84-260) 3863 335
Tel: (84-260) 3865 666
Add: 517 Nguyen Hue St., Kon Tum City
Tel: (84-260) 3862 594
Add: 521 Nguyen Hue St., Kon Tum City