Église Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes de Pudong, Catholic church in Pudong, Shanghai, China
Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes is a Catholic church on Tanglu Road in Tangzhen, Pudong, Shanghai. Built in French neo-Gothic style, it has a bell tower over 30 metres high and can hold 3,000 people. It is the largest church in Pudong New Area and a Marian pilgrimage site.
French Jesuit missionaries built a small chapel with a girls' orphanage at Tangmuqiao around 1868. After the priest Elao died, his mother funded a larger church; the foundation stone was laid on 20 April 1894 and it was consecrated on 2 January 1898. Seized by a farm machinery factory in 1958 and partly damaged, it was restored and returned to worship on 11 October 1992.
The name refers to Lourdes, the French Marian shrine, and the church is a Marian pilgrimage site: every May many believers come here, and Bishop Shen Bin listed it among the six pilgrimage sites of the Shanghai diocese for the 2025 Jubilee, as it had been in 1904 and 2000. Thaddeus Ma Daqin served as parish priest here in the 1990s.
The location is easily accessible by public transportation in the Pudong district and open for visits, particularly during service times. It is advisable to check opening hours in advance and wear appropriate clothing if attending religious ceremonies.
The church was a pilgrimage site in the 1904, 2000 and 2025 Jubilee years, as Bishop Shen Bin noted when he named it one of six pilgrimage sites of the Shanghai diocese for the 2025 Jubilee. It is listed as Shanghai outstanding historical building no. 158.
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