Reading the Layers of the Ruins of St. Paul’s
The surviving façade of the Church of Mater Dei is a carved surface shaped by Chinese and European visual traditions, and the remnant left by the fire of 1835.
St. Paul's Ruins
The surviving façade of the Church of Mater Dei is a carved surface shaped by Chinese and European visual traditions, and the remnant left by the fire of 1835.
St. Paul's Ruins
St. Paul’s College: The School Behind the Façade
The foundations behind the famous church wall belonged to a college where Jesuits prepared for work in China through language learning and religious study.
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