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Dozaki church

  • A church built in the Okuura district of Fukue island. During the Edo period, Hidden Christians migrated to Goto in groups from Sotome, and the Okuura district is the first area where they came and settled
  • Dozaki church is a full-scale, redbrick, gothic-style church.
  • A child welfare institution was built near the church for children who couldn’t be looked after by their parents. Today, it continues to possess the same ideals as when it was originally founded.
  • The church is now a museum displaying many items relating to the history of Christianity in Goto. These include items which held significance for the Hidden Christians.

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Kakure Kirishitan

［Kakure Kirishitan］ Kakure Kirishitan (underground Christian) refers to those who did not return to Catholicism even after the lifting of the edicts banning Christianity in the 19th century but continued to follow the unique beliefs developed during the forbidden period.

Discovery of Hidden Christians

［Discovery of Hidden Christians］ The Discovery of Hidden Christians is an event in which several Senpuku Kirishitans (hidden Christians) in Urakami confessed their faith to a priest for the first time in about 250 years, in 1865, even when the ban on Christianity had not yet been lifted. This historical event happened at the Oura Cathedral built in the foreign settlement of Nagasaki.

Senpuku Kirishitan

［Senpuku Kirishitan］ Senpuku Kirishitan (hidden Christians) lived ostensibly as Buddhists during the ban on Christianity but secretly carried on their faith.

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