For a country ruled by Communists, China has its fair share of churches—eleven in the Southern Chinese city of Guangzhou [1] alone, as photoblogged today at Frances D'Ath's Supernaut [2]:
“Guangzhou is home to at least eleven notable historic churches, built between 1850 and the early 20th century, but of these, 石室圣心教堂 or Sacred Heart Cathedral [3] is a geographic anachronism, as strange as finding a Ziggurat [4] in St Kilda [5]. Compared to the other churches, all of modest size and understated, being organic parts of their districts, 石室 is a monstrous, colonial behemoth that would not be intimidated next to any overwrought flexing of religious catechism on the alluvial banks of the Limmat [6].