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Founded in 1876 to serve the local Russian community. In 1891, Russian prince Nicholas II (who would later become the last tsar of Russia) visited Wuhan and provided funding for the rebuilding of the church, which was completed in 1893. It is the oldest surviving Russian Orthodox church in China. As of late 2024, it hosts a photo exhibition summing up the history of Chinese–Russian tea trade, carefully explained in Mandarin and Russian (but no English).
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湖北省电力博物馆
The museum is housed inside a former British-owned power station that dates from 1905. At the time, it was one of the largest power-generating facilities in China.
詹天佑故居
Zhang Tianyou (Jeme Tien-Yow) (1861-1919) was an outstanding engineer from Guangdong Province who is credited with being the 'father of China's railways'. He lived here from 1912 until his death in 1919. The mansion is open to the public and hosts an exhibition about Zhang's life.
八七会议会址, 八七会议会址纪念馆 August 7th Meeting Site Memorial Museum
The August 7th Meeting was an emergency meeting of the CCP Central Committee, which was secretly convened at this site in 1927, just a few days after the Communist uprising in Nanchang sparked the beginning of the Chinese Civil War. The meeting was a major turning point in the history of the Party. At this meeting, the Party decided to abandon the conservative urban-based approach to revolution being promoted by the Soviet Union and instead adopt the more radical ideas of Mao Zedong. The site of the August 7th meeting is now a museum.
汉口江滩
Note the tall monument which, from far away, appears to be a monument to Mao Zedong, but which actually commemorates Wuhan's complicated relationship with its great river. Erected in 1969, it's inscribed with Mao's poem "Swimming" (which not only celebrates the Yangtze in Wuhan, but also foresees the creation of the mighty hydro dams farther upstream), and decorated with reliefs depicting the citizens fighting the flood of 1954.
吉庆街, 吉庆民俗街 Jiqing Folk Street
An ordinary-seeming street by day, becomes transformed by night into a bewildering maze of streetside restaurants and buskers performing music, dance, opera and stand-up comedy. It is a strongly-recommended experience. Food is plentiful and cheap, and it features a lot of unique local cuisine. The performances can be enjoyed by proxy as performers work other tables or they can be purchased. One can expect to pay about ¥10 per song performed. Other performances are more based on contributions—the more you contribute, the longer the performers will do their routines and the more daring/interesting/funny the routines will be.
上海路天主堂 Shanghai Road Catholic Church
Wuhan's oldest and largest Catholic church. It was designed by an Italian missionary by the name of Angelus Vaudagna and completed in 1876.