Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall is a memorial building built in 1931 with the funds raised by the Guangzhou people and overseas Chinese in memory of Sun Yat-sen, the pioneer of China's bourgeois democratic revolution.
The memorial hall, occupying an area of 12,000 square meters with a height of 46 meters, has magnificent exterior and elegant interior decorations. The whole building, in octagonal shape, is designed with typical Chinese architecture style.
At the central up-layer wall of the small hall hung another straight board with the word " The Whole World As A Community" which was inscribed by Sun Yat-sen himself. In 1956, a 5-meter-high bronze statue of Dr. Sun was erected in front of the hall.
Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall is the most symbolized building of Guangzhou, and a key venue for the city's large-scale meetings and performances as well.
