Located on a hillside overlooking the small harbour in the main town of Hirado Island in Nagasaki.The church was built in 1913 and reconstructed on its current site in 1931.Originally called just Hirado Catholic Church, it was renamed the Sr. Francis Xavier Memorial Church after a statue of Xavier was erected in 1971.Xavier visited Jaan in 1549 and initially stayed in what is now Kagoshima.
