Our Lady of Carmel Church

This guide to Our Lady of Carmel Church in Taipa, Macau, starts in 1885, when the Bishop of Macau and the colonial governor had a stone cross planted on this hilltop above a fishing village, before the island's only Catholic church rose around it. It follows what building a Catholic church here signaled about Portuguese settlement in a Chinese fishing community, and takes you inside to the angel statues added during the church's hundredth-anniversary, standing watch over the nave from either side. Take a moment at those statues — they've seen every baptism and Mass held here since.