Song Village Minor Seminary

Lang Song minor seminary or Lang Song Church is located in Quang Van village (Phuoc Thuan commune, Tuy Phuoc district), according to recorded history, this is a place associated with the formation and development of the Quoc Ngu script from the beginning of the world. 17th century.

Distance from city center. Quy Nhon is more than 15 km, going through a winding road fragrant with the smell of rice in bloom, located between a high mound and between rows of hundreds of years old star trees with wide green foliage, Lang Song Minor Seminary is now present. With a poetic, ancient beauty in harmony between the green rice fields of the peaceful village.

Song Village Church is designed and built in the typical European Gothic style with pointed archways, pencil towers, and the main part is decorated with symmetrical door frames. The church's campus is about 2000 square meters, surrounded by hundreds of years old star trees, the chapel has 03 doors facing the south, combined with a row of two-story houses symmetrically built in the French architecture has a long corridor with arched balcony doors and straight columns, creating harmony in a space shady ancient and green.

Although it has been hundreds of years old, Village Song Minor Seminary still retains the ancient and majestic features of the Holy See. This work is considered a religious architecture that has existed for hundreds of years.

Currently, within the campus of Lang Song Minor Seminary, there is also the foundation of the Lang Song printing house. This is one of the first three national language book printing houses in Vietnam, along with two printing houses Tan Dinh (Saigon) and Ninh Phu printing house (Hanoi). Lang Song printing house was established by Bishop Eugenio Charbonnier Tri, representative of the Apostolic See of the Diocese of Dong Dang Trong (1864 - 1878).

The printing house was burned down in 1885, then it was rebuilt by Bishop Daimen Grangeon Man and handed over to Father Paul Maheu. Under the management of Father Paul Maheu, the printing house is growing strongly, investing heavily in machinery and equipment. This is also known as Dong Dang Trong printing house, one of the three largest printing houses at that time, along with Dang Ngoai and Tay Dang Trong printing houses. Lang Song printing house operated until about 1936, moved to Quy Nhon.

Today, although it has been inactive for a long time, this place is still a destination for tourists from far away to visit and worship, or locals come to pray on Catholic holidays and New Year.

With inherent historical and cultural values and ancient and unique European-style architectural works, harmoniously hidden in the quiet, charming space of more than 200-year-old stars, Minor Seminary Song Village is a new destination for tourists when coming to Binh Dinh province.