Kon Tum Wooden Church

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.

 

 

NEARBY DESTINATIONS
WHERE TO STAY
Indochine Hotel

Add: 30 Bach Dang St., Kon Tum City

Tel: (84-260) 3863 334

WHERE TO EAT
Hiep Thanh restaurant

Add: 529 Nguyen Hue St., Kon Tum City

Tel: (84-260) 3865 845

Indochinese restaurant

Add: 30 Bach Dang St., Kon Tum City

Tel: (84-260) 3863 335

Ngoc Linh restaurant

Add: 30 Bach Dang St., Kon Tum City

Tel: (84-260) 3865 666

90.I restaurant

Add: 517 Nguyen Hue St., Kon Tum City

Tel: (84-260) 3862 594

90.II restaurant

Add: 521 Nguyen Hue St., Kon Tum City

Tel: (84-260) 3862 594