Sofia Plaza

Located on the South Bank of the beautiful Songhua River, Sofia Plaza is famous at home and abroad for its unique architectural landscape and European customs. The whole Plaza embodies the beautiful melody of music and the light of architectural wisdom.

Sophia Church is the most dazzling presence in the square. It is a typical Byzantine architecture. The murals, chandeliers, bell tower, dome and choir all show rich and colorful cultural landscape and unique artistic characteristics. It has high historical and cultural value and architectural art appreciation value. The building, which was born nearly a hundred years ago, is magnificent, simple and elegant, and full of charming colors.

There is a modern professional exhibition hall in the scenic area, and nearly a thousand beautiful pictures show the history, current situation and future of Harbin, a famous cultural city. The large-scale urban planning sand table, with a scale of 1:600 and an area of nearly 400 square meters, uses high-tech means such as sound, light, electricity and lifting to depict the grand blueprint of Harbin in the future. There are also pottery bars, movie bars, roller skating rink and other entertainment places in the square. Beer Square and cold drink square have the style of "Oriental little Paris", attracting millions of Chinese and foreign tourists to visit here every year.

Harbin Sofia Plaza

synonym

Sofia Plaza generally refers to Harbin Sofia Plaza

Sofia Plaza was founded in 1997, covering an area of 22000 square meters. It is located in the South Bank of Songhua River in Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province. It is located in the downtown area of Harbin. Sofia Plaza is a national AAAA tourist attraction. The square is composed of St. Sophia Church, new synagogue and architectural art square. In September 1997, St. Sophia Church was restored. With the approval of Harbin municipal government, it was named Harbin Architectural Art Museum, which belongs to Harbin urban and Rural Construction Committee.

Characteristics of the square

Sofia church, the landmark building in the square, is the best preserved typical Byzantine architecture in China. This building, which was born nearly a century ago, is full of charming colors. The murals, chandeliers, bell tower, dome and choir in the church all show rich and colorful cultural landscape and unique artistic features, which has high historical and cultural value and architectural art appreciation value. The scale of the church is grand, comparable with Moscow's Vassily church, and its exquisite shape can be juxtaposed with Notre Dame. The magnificent dome, simple and elegant wall decoration reproduce the customs, and the whole square embodies the beautiful melody of music and the light of architectural wisdom.

St. Sophia Church is a famous landmark building in Harbin. It was built in March 1907. It was originally the military Church of the Fourth Infantry Division in eastern Siberia of Russia. The site was rebuilt in September 1923 and completed on November 25, 1932. After the completion of St. Sophia Church, deeply influenced by Byzantine architectural style, is a typical representative of modern European architecture in Harbin, with high artistic value and historical value.

"Sophia" means "the wisdom of the gods", which is the name of the church. It means to worship the God of wisdom. The church adopts the architectural form of the combination of the centralized structure and the arched structure under the cover of the large dome. It well designs the plane of the church as the East-West Latin cross, and all the walls are made of fair faced red bricks. The main building in the center is crowned with a huge onion dome, and tents of different sizes are built on the four wings. "Onion dome" and "tent roof" are recognized as important symbols of Russian architecture. Therefore, this exquisite Byzantine building has taken on the cultural traditions, cultural customs and environmental characteristics of different regions in its development.

The plane layout of the church is Latin cross, with clear primary and secondary structure. The appearance is composed of a huge "onion head" dome, which commands four tent roofs of different sizes. With a height of 53.35 meters, covering an area of 721 square meters and a construction area of 960 square meters, the church is the largest Orthodox Church in the Far East. In 1986, St. Sophia Church was listed as class I protected building in Harbin. In November 1996, it was listed as a national key cultural relics protection unit. In 1997, Harbin municipal government carried out the protection, repair and comprehensive renovation of the St. Sophia Church Building and its surrounding environment, and reproduced its former style. In September of the same year, with the approval of Harbin municipal government, it was named Harbin Architectural Art Museum as an important window to publicize and display Harbin's history, culture and architectural art. The museum now displays the exhibition of old photos of Harbin, which vividly shows the development process of Harbin from a small fishing village to an international metropolis with the reputation of "Oriental Moscow" and "Oriental little Paris" with a large number of precious historical pictures, images and objects. People here can get many old photos of Harbin and feel the distant past of the city.

The new synagogue was built in 1918, with a height of 23.59 meters, an area of 1296 square meters and a construction area of 2400 square meters. It is the largest Synagogue in China. "Gazing at architectural art exhibition" and "Jews in Harbin historical and cultural exhibition" are now on display in the hall.

In 2004, Harbin municipal government carried out the overall protection and restoration of the hall building, making it a new characteristic landscape of the city. The "gazing architectural art exhibition" held on the first floor of the New Synagogue focuses on the rich and colorful architectural art of Harbin and the outstanding achievements of urban construction through painting, photography, models, prints and other art forms. 2、 Harbin Jewish history and culture exhibition, held on the third floor, vividly shows Jewish culture with a large number of precious pictures, images and objects, and witnesses the friendship between China and Jewish countries.

Covering an area of 22000 square meters, Harbin Architectural Art Plaza has undergone three times of renovation and expansion. It is a large comprehensive Plaza with multiple functions such as sightseeing, leisure and entertainment, catering and shopping, activities and gatherings. Around the square, there are many European style landscape buildings, such as St. Sophia Church, art brick Gallery, steel tower Gallery, Arc de Triomphe, etc. in the square, there are a large series of music fountains, water folding landscape, large-scale lifting European style "lampstand". Every important holiday, there will be a "holy fire". At the same time, the square is equipped with three high-power snow makers, which can create a unique "snow spring" scenery in winter.

Practical information

Ticket information

Free Admission

Opening Hours

Open all day

Best season

All seasons

Suggest playing

1 hour

Traffic information

Address: St. Sophia Church: 88 toulong street, Daoli District.

Harbin New Synagogue: 162 Jingwei street, Daoli District.

Take No.1, 2, 13, 15, 64, 66, 113 to ha 100 or fashion building... Take No.1, 2, 13, 15, 64, 66, 113 to ha 100 or fashion building; take No.53 and 114 to Central Street station.

It takes about 50 minutes / 11.9 km to take bus No.13 from Harbin 610 meters walk to municipal government station, take bus No.29 from 4 stops, get off at Municipal People's Congress station, take bus No.13 from 5 stops, get off at Liansheng square station, and walk 160 meters to Sofia Square.

Scenic spots

There is a modern professional exhibition hall in the square, with nearly 1000 beautiful pictures showing the history, current situation and future of Harbin, a famous cultural city. The large-scale urban planning sand table, with a scale of 1:600 and an area of nearly 400 square meters, uses high-tech means such as sound, light, electricity and lifting to depict the grand blueprint of Harbin in the future. There are pottery bar, movie bar, roller skating rink, beer Square and cold drink square in the square. Sofia Plaza attracts millions of Chinese and foreign tourists to visit and take a vacation here every year.

Address: 88 toulong street, Daoli District, Harbin

Longitude: 126.627341

Latitude: 45.770175

Tour time: 1 hour

Traffic information: take bus No.1, 5, 20, 61, 113, 114, 206 and get off at Zhaolin Street station, then walk

Ticket information: Free

Opening hours: all day

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