St. Joseph's Cathedral, Hanoi

St. Joseph's Cathedral Nhà thờ Chính tòa Thánh Giuse Cathédrale Saint-Joseph d'Hanoï
21°1′43″N 105°50′56″E / 21.02861°N 105.84889°E / 21.02861; 105.84889
Location	Nhà Chung Street, Hoàn Kiếm District, Hanoi
Country	Vietnam
Denomination	Roman Catholic
History
Status	Cathedral
Dedication	St. Joseph
Consecrated	December 24, 1886
Architecture
Functional status	Active
Groundbreaking
Completed	December 1886
Administration
Archdiocese	Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hanoi
Clergy
Archbishop	Joseph Vũ Văn Thiên

St. Joseph's Cathedral (Vietnamese: Nhà thờ Lớn Hà Nội lit. 'Grand Cathedral of Hanoi', Nhà thờ Chính tòa Thánh Giuse; French: Cathédrale Saint-Joseph d'Hanoï) is a Catholic church on Nhà Chung Street, in the Hoàn Kiếm District of Hanoi, Vietnam. It is a late 19th-century Gothic Revival (Neo-Gothic style) church that serves as the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hanoi. The cathedral is named after Joseph, the patron saint of Vietnam.

Construction began in 1884, with an architectural style resembling the Notre Dame de Paris. The church was one of the first structures built by the colonial government of French Indochina when it opened in December, 1886 and is the oldest church in Hanoi.^[1]

Mass is celebrated in the cathedral several times during the day. For the Sunday Mass at 6:00 PM, large crowds spill out into the streets. Prayers and hymns are broadcast to the plaza outside; Catholics who are unable to enter the cathedral congregate in the street and listen to hymns.^[2]