Hoi An Church
Gothic-spired parish church with tiled roofline, tombs of pioneering missionaries still resting in its grounds.
This guide to Hoi An Church follows the ritual that still happens four times each Sunday: parishioners lining up for a wafer that Catholic teaching holds to be the body of Christ, a practice traced back to around 1615, when Jesuit missionary Francesco Buzomi and two Portuguese companions arrived in the port then called Faifo. It explains why they came, not to trade but to serve a community of Japanese Christians already living in Hoi An, and follows the parish they founded through several rebuildings, with tombs of early missionaries still resting on the grounds. The building around you today blends a Gothic spire with a Vietnamese tiled roofline.
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