Situated on the romantic and green Dak Bla River, Kon Tum Wooden Church is always the ideal destination of many tourists passionate on exploring the unspoiled nature of the great green forest and the ancient features of the stilted houses of Ba Na people for 100 years.

Coming to Kom Tum, tourists will be impressed with the rustic beauty of Kon Tum Wooden Church up to blue sky. The church is called the wooden church because this unique architecture of the Kon Tum Wooden Church was built entirely of wood designed in classic Roman architecture combined with the traditional stilt house architecture of Ba Na ethnical group by a French from 1913 to early 1918. Today, the church has become a symbol of the Central Highlands, the pride of the people of Kon Tum, and always has a strong attraction for tourists to the Central highlands.

Kon Tum Wooden Church also highlights itself with the featured characteristics of the stilt walls made of soil mixed with straw, not using plaster mortar to paint. The church’s façade is divided into four twenty-four-storey towers, four main columns and two sub pillars linked together to form a small, and rounded glass windows with concentric joists perfectly arranged to give the window the overall view to the church. The chapel of the church consists of four 12-meter high wooden columns that run from the front to the dressing room, and the two large columns create a large, high and airy space for sightseeing. The two pillars outside the wall are two sub rooms with lower ceilings, and all four rows of pillars on sturdy stone platforms that withstood the time, supporting the weight of the church.

Inside the church, there are many small columns linked together by wooden arches to support the windows in the heart of the church. Inside the church, many frames of colored glass doors are painted in the bible to get natural light and create a magnificent splendor for the church. The wooden pillars in the church, though not meticulously carved, but detailed and delicate patterns with the strong, and liberal lines shown the temperament of compatriots in the Central Highlands. Tourists can choose to visit the Kon Tum Wooden Church in the season of blooming flowers, on the way to the church, tourists also witness the colorful nature from the pink of the roses, white color of the other flowers to enhance the tranquility of Kon Tum. If coming to the Kon Tum Wooden Church in Christmas, tourists will meet thousands of parishioners who come to the church, stay on the right vacancies for a week to attend the ceremony. The two sides of the church in the ceremony is the place for the laity to pray, and remind about the lifes of people in here.

Let’s come to the Kon Tum Wooden Church and discover the unique beauty of the Central Highlands in here!