The Spanish priest the Rev. Fernando Sainz, O.P. preached Christianity here 150 years ago, and his followers subsequently built this church. The exterior of this magnificent building was made using traditional materials, such as crushed stone, mortar containing lime, brown sugar, and honey, kapok, and kiln-fired bricks, and it has a horizontal inscribed granite tablet, given by the emperor Tongzhi.
早在一百五十年前，西班牙神父郭德剛便在此宣教，日後信徒們興建了這座以碎石、石灰、黑糖、蜂蜜、木棉及火磚等古老建材為外牆的大教堂，規模宏偉，還獲同治皇帝親賜「奉旨」及「天主堂」石碑，至今仍鑲在聖堂正面上方。