History
From 1869 to 1879, the French built a Gothic-style 15 metre Catholic church in Shengtang Village (盛塘村; pinyin: shèngtáng cūn), Weizhou. Weizhou Chengzai Church (城仔教堂) was built in 1880, also by French Catholics. Vietnam's government had controlled the island for a long time, they built many temples and pagodas before returning Weizhou and Xieyang island to the Chinese government.
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