She Shan Hill

She Shan Hill

She Shan (Chinese: 佘山; Pinyin: Shē Shān) is a 328ft (100m) hill in the city of Shanghai in eastern China. It is summounted by the "Our Lady of China" Catholic church, She Shan Basilica which was built there between 1925 and 1935 following its establishment as a chapel in the 1850s by European missionaries. Services there are held in Latin. The road to the top of She Shan hill represents the Via Dolorosa (The Way of Suffering) that Christ took to his crucifixion. Every May pilgrims flock to the chapel and the holy road in their hundreds.

The hill has an ancient observatory that houses an ingenious earthquake monitoring device of a jar with dragon heads around the outside and a pendulum inside. Each dragon has a steel ball in its mouth. When an earthquake occurred the pendulum would swing, knock a dragon causing its mouth to open and a ball to drop out and thereby point out the quake's direction.


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Поможем написать реферат

Look at other dictionaries:

  • She Shan Basilica — Christianity in China portal …   Wikipedia

  • Beit She'an — Hebrew transcription(s)  – Hebrew בֵּית שְׁאָן  – ISO 259 Beit Šˀan  – Translit …   Wikipedia

  • Список кодов обсерваторий — …   Википедия

  • Sheshan — may refer to:*Sheshan Island, island in Shanghai, China *She Shan Hill, hill in Shanghai, China …   Wikipedia

  • Marian apparition — The Vision of St Bernard, by Fra Bartolommeo, c. 1504 (Uffizi). A Marian apparition is an event in which the Blessed Virgin Mary is believed to have supernaturally appeared to one or more people. They are often given names based on the town in… …   Wikipedia

  • Roman Catholic Marian churches — Santa Maria Maggiore, the first Marian church in Rome Throughout history, Roman Catholics have built churches to venerate the Blessed Virgin Mary. Today, a large number of Roman Catholic churches dedicated to the Blessed Virgin exist on all… …   Wikipedia

  • Liste der Basiliken der Römisch-katholischen Kirche — Das ist eine Liste der Basiliken der Römisch katholischen Kirche. Eine Basilika ist eine Kirche mit bestimmten Privilegien, die ihr der Papst eingeräumt hat. Nicht alle Kirchen mit der Bezeichnung Basilika in ihrem Titel haben diesen… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Myanmar — /muy ahn mah/, n. Union of, official name of Burma. * * * I or Burma officially Union of Myanmar Country, Southeast Asia, on the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea. Area: 261,228 sq mi (676,577 sq km). Population (2002 est.): 42,238,000. Capital:… …   Universalium

  • India — /in dee euh/, n. 1. Hindi, Bharat. a republic in S Asia: a union comprising 25 states and 7 union territories; formerly a British colony; gained independence Aug. 15, 1947; became a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations Jan. 26, 1950.… …   Universalium

  • arts, East Asian — Introduction       music and visual and performing arts of China, Korea, and Japan. The literatures of these countries are covered in the articles Chinese literature, Korean literature, and Japanese literature.       Some studies of East Asia… …   Universalium

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
… Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”