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Phat Diem Cathedral: The preparation phase alone — when materials were extracted from limestone mountains — to build this place of worship in Ninh Binh province, took locals 10 years to complete. The church itself then took 24 years to construct, from 1875 to 1898 and is built of stone and wood.