Sakitsu Church, in Amakusa

 

A Gothic-looking church is located on a cove of a fishing village in Amakusa.

In 1934, a French priest

Augustin Halbout MEP purchased the premises of the former village headman and built a

wooden and concrete finished church, with Tetsukawa Yosuke’s design and construction.

He placed the altar at the very site where fumie or a test to ensure non-allegiance to

Christianity had been conducted.