St. Mary's (Tokyo)

St. Mary's Cathedral in Tokyo

Side view

View of the chancel

The Cathedral of St. Mary ( Japanese 東京 カ テ ド ラ ル 聖 マ リ ア 大 聖堂 , Tōkyō Katedoraru Sei Maria Daiseidō ) is the seat of the Archdiocese of Tokyo of the Roman Catholic Church . It is located in the Sekiguchi residential area of Tokyo's Bunkyō district .

history

The original building from 1899 was a neo-Gothic wooden structure. It burned down in World War II . In the early 1960s, the archdiocese invited the three architects Kenzō Tange , Yoshirō Taniguchi and Kunio Maekawa to a competition for a new building in which Tange was able to prevail with his concrete / steel construction. The Archdiocese of Tokyo let it work with the Cologne diocesan master builder Wilhelm Schlombs and build it with the financial support of the Archdiocese of Cologne .

Completed in 1965, the church with a cross-shaped floor plan is up to 40 meters high and reaches this point at the eastern end above the altar. The twelve centimeter thick concrete shells from which it is made are clad on the outside with stainless steel, inside the concrete should act for itself.

organ

The organ was built in 2004 by the Italian organ builder Mascioni . The most important advisor was the Italian organist Lorenzo Ghielmi .

The instrument has 46 registers (3,122 pipes) on three manuals and a pedal . The game actions are mechanical, the stop actions are electric.

I Positivo C – a 3 Principale italiano 8th' Bordone 8th' Principals 4 ′ Ottava 4 ′ Flauto in ottava 4 ′ Sesquialtera II 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ Decimaquinta 2 ′ Decimanona 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ Ripieno III 2 ′ Voce Umana 8th' Cromorno 8th' tremolo

II Grand 'Organo C – a 3 Principals 16 ′ Principals 8th' Flauto a camino 8th' Ottava 4 ′ Flauto a cuspide 4 ′ Quinta 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ Nazardo 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ Ottava 2 ′ Terza 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′ Mistura V 2 ′ Cimbalo III 2 ⁄ 3 ′ Tromba 8th'

III Recitativo C – a 3 Bordone 16 ′ Bordone 8th' Viola da gamba 8th' Principals 4 ′ Flauto 4 ′ Flauto 2 ′ Cornetto III-V 　 8th' Ripieno IV 2 ′ Dulziana 16 ′ Tromba 8th' oboe 8th' Clarone 4 ′ tremolo

Pedals C – f 1 Subbasso 32 ′ Contrabasso 16 ′ Violone 16 ′ Subbasso 16 ′ Basso 8th' Bordone 8th' Principals 4 ′ Mistura IV 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ Tromboni 16 ′ Tromba 8th' Tromba 4 ′

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

literature

• Hiroshi Watanabe: The Architecture of Tokyo: An Architectural History in 571 Individual Presentations , Edition Axel Menges , 2001 ISBN 3-930698-93-5 p. 130

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Information on the organ ( Memento from August 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

Commons : St. Marien (Tokyo)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 35 ° 42 ′ 51.2 "  N , 139 ° 43 ′ 36.3"  E