Sacred Heart Cathedral of Dali, Catholic cathedral in Dali Town, China.

The Sacred Heart Cathedral is a house of worship in Dali Town featuring mixed architecture that merges European and Chinese design elements. The building displays features of Western church architecture interwoven with local construction methods from the Yunnan region.

Catholicism reached Dali before 1856 and grew into the western Yunnan mission centre under the Paris Foreign Missions Society. In 1922 French missionary Pierre Erdozaincy Etchard took charge; from 1927 Bai craftsmen from Taihe village built the cathedral, completed in 1931. In 1966 the marble altar and carved furniture were smashed and the church was used as a school; it was returned to the Church in 1981, and repairs funded in 1984 followed.

The name on the bell tower reads "天主堂" (Lord of Heaven Church), and the 16-metre tower carries a cross above its four-cornered pyramidal roof. The church was built by Bai craftsmen from Taihe village near Dali, who used local stone and wood and Bai folk building arts; carving alone took two-fifths of the construction budget. From 1981 to 2000 it was the only Catholic church in Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, so believers from every county gathered here.

The building sits centrally in Dali's old town and is easily accessible on foot. Visitors should note that active services are held there and appropriate dress is respectful.

The cathedral's carved decoration cost two-fifths of the entire construction budget, and the 16-metre bell tower above the entrance bears the characters 天主堂. It was listed as a national key cultural relic in 2019 under catalogue number 8-716.