St. Mary's Cathedral, Tokyo

The Cathedral of St. Mary (Japanese東京 カテドラル 聖 マリア 大 聖堂, Tōkyō Katedoraru Be Daiseidō Maria ) is the seat of the Archdiocese of Tokyo, the Roman Catholic Church. It is located in the residential area of Tokyo Sekiguchi borough Bunkyō.

History

The original building of 1899 was a neo-Gothic wooden building. It burned down in World War II. In the early 1960s invited the Archdiocese of the three architects Kenzo Tange, Yoshiro Taniguchi and Kunio Maekawa to a competition for a new one, in which Tange was able to prevail with its concrete / steel construction. The Archdiocese of Tokyo she let him plan cooperation with the Cologne Diocesan architect Wilhelm Schlombs and build with the financial support of the Archdiocese of Cologne.

The 1965 finished church of cruciform floor plan is up to 40 meters high and reached this point at the east end above the altar. The twelve -inch thick concrete shells, of which it consists are covered on the outside with stainless steel, the interior of the concrete to act for themselves.

Equipment

The organ was built in 2004 by the Italian organ builder Mascioni. The instrument has 46 registers ( 3,122 pipes ) on three manuals and pedal. The Spieltrakturen are mechanical, the Registertrakturen are electric.

• Couplers: I / II, III / II, II / P III / P