Ikusei Kindergarten Building and Chapel of Sakurai Saint Paul's Church (Nippon Sei Ko Kai)

A Kindergarten Below, a Chapel Above

The Ikusei Kindergarten Building and Chapel of Sakurai Saint Paul's Church (Nippon Sei Ko Kai) (育成幼稚園園舎兼日本聖公会櫻井聖保羅教会礼拝堂) is a combined kindergarten building and chapel of 1930 in Sakurai, Sakurai City, Nara Prefecture, and was registered as a Registered Tangible Cultural Property (structure) on August 15, 2024 (Agency for Cultural Affairs).

The Agency records a two-storey timber building with a tiled roof and a building area of 157 square metres, altered in 1980; registration number 29-0362.

A Kindergarten Below, a Chapel Above

The Ikusei Kindergarten Building and Chapel of Sakurai Saint Paul's Church (Nippon Sei Ko Kai) stands southeast of JR Sakurai Station (Agency for Cultural Affairs). It is a two-storey timber building with a gabled tile roof and clapboard walls, the lower part partly finished in washed mortar.

The kindergarten occupies the ground floor and the chapel the floor above, a single long nave running east to west (Agency for Cultural Affairs). The chapel roof rests on scissor trusses, and the upper walls are pierced by rectangular and pointed-arch windows.

Why It Was Registered

The Agency registered it for its contribution to the historic landscape, a gabled kindergarten and chapel familiar to the neighbourhood.

What to Look For

The rectangular and pointed-arch windows in the clapboard walls signal from outside that the upper floor is a chapel (Agency for Cultural Affairs).

Visiting

The building is in daily use as a kindergarten and church, and no official information on interior visits was found. The exterior can be seen from the street.