is a Christian church

Christian Church

The Christian Church is the assembly or association of followers of Jesus Christ. The Greek term ἐκκλησία that in its appearances in the New Testament is usually translated as "church" basically means "assembly"...

 located in Yokohama

Yokohama

is the capital city of Kanagawa Prefecture and the second largest city in Japan by population after Tokyo and most populous municipality of Japan. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of Tokyo, in the Kantō region of the main island of Honshu...

, Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

, and is the diocesan cathedral of the Diocese

Diocese

A diocese is the district or see under the supervision of a bishop. It is divided into parishes.An archdiocese is more significant than a diocese. An archdiocese is presided over by an archbishop whose see may have or had importance due to size or historical significance...

 of Yokohama, which includes all Anglican-Episcopal churches in Chiba

Chiba Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region and the Greater Tokyo Area. Its capital is Chiba City.- History :Chiba Prefecture was established on June 15, 1873 with the merger of Kisarazu Prefecture and Inba Prefecture...

, Kanagawa

Kanagawa Prefecture

is a prefecture located in the southern Kantō region of Japan. The capital is Yokohama. Kanagawa is part of the Greater Tokyo Area.-History:The prefecture has some archaeological sites going back to the Jōmon period...

 and Yamanashi Prefecture

Yamanashi Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of the island of Honshū. The capital is the city of Kōfu.-Pre-history to the 14th century:People have been living in the Yamanashi area for about 30,000 years...

s.

History

The Christian mission to Yokohama was started in 1863 by M. B. Bailey in the foreign concession (in Japanese: 横浜居留地). St. Andrew's Church was formed at a rented house in 1885, and its Japanese-speaking congregation became the present-day St. Andrew's Church, while its English-speaking congregation moved to Yokohama Christ Church on the Bluff (in Japanese: 横浜山手) which after the Second World War added a Japanese congregation that became Yokohama Yamate Anglican-Episcopal Church (in Japanese: 横浜山手聖公会教会).

Since 1885, St. Andrew's Church moved to a few places in Yokohama, and the church buildings were lost twice, in the Kantō Earthquake of 1923

1923 Great Kanto earthquake

The struck the Kantō plain on the Japanese main island of Honshū at 11:58:44 am JST on September 1, 1923. Varied accounts hold that the duration of the earthquake was between 4 and 10 minutes...

 and the Yokohama Air Raid of 1945. The present-day building was built in 1955. Its current address is:

14-5, Mitsusawa Shimo-machi, Kanagawa-ku, Yokohama 221-0852

Tel．045-321-4989　Fax．045-321-4992

During its history, Reverend Alexander Croft Shaw of Canada

Canada

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, who founded the summer resort at Karuizawa

Karuizawa, Nagano

is a town located in Kitasaku District, Nagano, Japan.As of January 1, 2008, the town has an estimated population of 17,833 and has a total area of ....

, and Reverend Walter Weston

Walter Weston

The Reverend Walter Weston , was an English clergyman, missionary, and mountaineer.-Background and early life:...

 of England

England

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, who promoted alpinism in Japan by climbing the Japan Alps mountains, served at this church.

See also

• Yokohama
  Yokohama
  is the capital city of Kanagawa Prefecture and the second largest city in Japan by population after Tokyo and most populous municipality of Japan. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of Tokyo, in the Kantō region of the main island of Honshu...
  
  
• Anglican Church, Anglican Communion
  Anglican Communion
  The Anglican Communion is an international association of national and regional Anglican churches in full communion with the Church of England and specifically with its principal primate, the Archbishop of Canterbury...
  
  , Nippon Sei Ko Kai
  Nippon Sei Ko Kai
  The Nippon Sei Ko Kai , abbreviated as NSKK, or the Anglican Church in Japan, is the religious body in the Province of Japan of the Anglican Communion....
  
  , etc.
• St. Andrew's Cathedral (Tokyo)

External links

• St. Andrew's Cathedral, Yokohama web site (in Japanese)
• St. Andrew's Cathedral, Yokohama