A New Church in the Rising Sun: Saint Francis Xavier

Among the wealth of buildings consecrated to Shinto religion, Yamaguchi has a Christian place worship: Sanctuary Saint Francis Xavier. The lot chosen is same on which previous church stood, symbol city and destroyed by fire in 1991. Consonances relations could be found with spaces that have wished express force tension towards Absolute not only our Western world but also Oriental architecture, particular Japanese, where striving spoliation essentialness things is, bottom, thirst for truth perceived. Finally, effort had as its aim make architecture speak universal language hearth man, rapt infinite desire experience beauty find himself once again within it an authentic interior joy.