Sacred Heart Cathedral (Japanese: カトリック山手教会) is the seat of the bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Yokohama, Japan. The Yokohama diocese includes Kanagawa, Shizuoka, Nagano, and Yamanashi prefectures. As it is located at 44 Yamate-cho, Naka-ku, the cathedral is commonly known locally as .

Immediately after the lifting of the a long-standing ban on Christianity, a Catholic church was built in 1862 by the Paris Foreign Missions Society in the Yokohama foreign settlement (currently Yamashita-cho).Yokohama Yamate Catholic Church (in Japanese) This church was moved to its current location in 1906, and was a brick building with two bell towers, which was completely destroyed during the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake. The rebuilt Yamate Catholic Church was designed by Czech architect Jan Josef Švagr in the Neo-Gothic styleSacchi, Livio. (2004) Tokyo: City and Architecture Universe, p.130 and completed in 1933.Watanabe, Hiroshi. (2001) The Architecture of Tōkyō Edition Axel Menges (2001), p.107 When the Diocese of Yokohama was erected in 1937,Diocese of Yokohama at catholic-hierarchy.org. Retrieved 2011-10-28. the Yamate church became its cathedral.

See also List of cathedrals in Japan

References

External links History of Diocese of Yokohama Diocese of Yokohama at Catholic-Hierarchy.org Sacred Heart Cathedral homepage at ”ミサの時間。”