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Tabira Church

Nagasaki · Hirado · Shrines & Temples

Japanese name: 田平天主堂

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Tabira Church
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WHAT TO DOTabira Church

The congregation laid the brick themselves. An Important Cultural Property.

WHERENagasaki

Sasebo & North · Hirado

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The congregation laid the brick themselves. An Important Cultural Property.

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Tabira Cathedral (Tabira Tenshudo) is a church and sanctuary of the Catholic Diocese of Nagasaki in Kotedamen, Tabira-cho, Hirado, Nagasaki Prefecture. Its official name is Catholic Tabira Church, and it is also called Setoyama Cathedral after its location. It is designated an Important Cultural Property. From the red-brick church standing on an open hill in the western part of Tabira-cho, Hirado, you can see the Hirado Strait and the Hirado Bridge spanning it, and the view is often used as a subject for photographs and paintings.

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Founded:1918 Designation:Important Cultural Property Blessings:Rebirth

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