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* [http://figure-ground.com/travel/image.php?st_mary Photographs of exterior and interior of church]
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* Access - [http://www.tokyo.catholic.jp/text/eng/diocese/direction.htm]
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Revision as of 11:00, 28 January 2009

St. Mary's Cathedral (東京カテドラル聖マリア大聖堂 Tōkyō Katedoraru Sei Maria Daiseidō) is the seat of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tokyo. It is located in the Sekiguchi neighborhood of Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan.

The original structure of 1899 was a wooden building in the Gothic style. It was burned during World War II. The present church, designed by Tange Kenzo, dates from 1964. Kenzo Tange won the competition for the reconstruction of this church in 1961. It was built with assistance from Wilhelm Schlombs, architect to the Archdiocese of Cologne, the engineer Yoshikatsu Tsuboi, who worked with Tange on many of his projects and the Zurich architect Max Lechner.

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35°42′51″N 139°43′36″E / 35.71417°N 139.72667°E / 35.71417; 139.72667