This is one of the oldest wooden church architectures in Japan I visited in GOTO. Nagasaki was the place where the first Portuguese Christian missionaries arrived in the Edo period. Goto was a place where they engaged in their first missionary works, and also was the place for banishment when Christianity was banned by the Edo Government. There are many wooden chapels in the area. I attended a Christmas mass, and it was interesting since you had to take off shoes at the entrance, and there was a Tatami space. After the mass we were served GOTO UDON (yummy!) outside. It is nice to see a religion localized.
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