Phat Diem, Viet Nam

From Under stern official gaze, Vietnam's Catholic stronghold dares to hope:

People leave the Phat Diem cathedral after attending Sunday
mass. Up to ten percent of Vietnam's 82 million population
are Catholics and nearly 150,000 of them live in Phat Diem,
the largest of the communist country's 25 dioceses.

This 19th Century cathedral shows that acculturation is nothing new to the Catholic Church in Asia. It also shows that Catholic architecture need not be Gothic or Romanesque to be solid and traditionalist.