Harbin - Church of St Sophia

The Church of St Sophia is a Russian Orthodox Church built in 1907. It could easily be St Paul's Cathedral in London.

The Church now houses the Harbin Architecture Arts Centre, which displays black and white photography of Harbin from the early 1900's. The captions are lost on us westerners as they are in Chinese.

The cost to enter the church is Y15. The only reason you would want to pay and go inside is if you had an interest in the architecture.

No sight seeing is complete without being asked to have your photo taken. So I had my photo taken with two Chinese children out the front of the church!