Where is Hankou Orthodox Church?

Hankou Orthodox Church is a cultural relic protection unit in Hubei Province.

Hankou orthodox church

Located at No.38 Poyang Street, Jiang 'an District, Wuhan City, it was built at 1885. Formerly known as Aleksandrnev Hall, it is located in the southeast and northwest, with a regular octagonal plane and masonry structure, with a building area of about 192 square meters. It consists of a bell tower and purlins. The bell tower extends out of the purlin and has an octagonal roof, and retracts upward to form an octagonal pyramid-shaped roof tower with eight walls and eight columns and arched glass windows. The wall of the bell tower is connected with purlins, with an arch in the middle, semi-arch openings on both sides of the arch and side doors. The main hall is about 13 meters wide and about 13 meters deep, with coupon arches on both sides of the central axis and coupon arch windows on the other five sides. There is a podium in the hall. The two corners of the bell tower and the octagonal purlin are brick wall columns, and the waist and top of the column are gray plastic lines. This church is the only Russian Orthodox Church in Wuhan. /kloc-Hankou was an important place for Russian businessmen to conduct religious activities during their business in China after its opening in the 0 th and 9 th centuries. Witnessed the development of Sino-Russian economy and trade and the rise and fall of orthodox religious activities in Hankou, which has certain historical value for studying the social and economic development in the late Qing Dynasty and foreign religious activities in China. At the same time, the church is a typical Byzantine architectural style with high architectural artistic value.

Source: Hubei Provincial Bureau of Cultural Relics.