Mizunoura Church has a spectacular view of the sea. Its congregation is made up of Goto Fuku Island Catholic farmers and fishermen. The remains of C
Mizunoura Church has a spectacular view of the sea. Its congregation is made up of Goto Fuku Island Catholic farmers and fishermen. The remains of Christians in the neighboring land tels the history of the Christian repression during the Tokugawa shogunate. Mizunoura Church was established by Rev Salemon of the Paris Foreign Missionary in 1880. The church was designed and built by Tetsukawa Yosuke who participated in the construction of Catholic churches across the Goto Islands as a gifted carpenter his first encounter with European architecture. He went on to study architecture and joined the Architectural Institute of Japan. Although a Buddhist all his life he was sensitive to the sentiments of Catholics and responded to their expectations by designing beautiful churches across Kyushu. As Japan's premier church architect, Tetsukawa was decorated by the Japanese government.
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