Car Hire in Kasugaoka - Mini guide to Kasugaoka

Church of the Light is situated in Ibaraki city and is the major chapel of the Ibaraki Kasugaoka church. The church was constructed in 1989 with the architectural design having been done by Tadao Ando, a Japanese. The church remains one of Tadao Ando’s most renowned architectural creations.

The Church of the Light was constructed on the site where there used to be a wooden chapel and a residential house assigned to the church’s minister. The benches used in the Church of the Light are improvised from the planks that were utilised as scaffolds when construction of the church was going on.

From Osaka the Church of the Light is twenty-five kilometres away in the north direction. The Church of the Light sits on an area of approximately a hundred and thirteen square metres or around a thousand two hundred and sixteen square feet. Though initially it was just a church, ten years later after it was put up, a Sunday school was added by constructing an extension to the old building.

The architecture of the Church of the Light betrays the fact that the architect was heavily influenced by Zen philosophies. This especially comes out in how the architect has allowed light to interact with the solid materials. Inside the church too visitors talk of experiencing intense sense of emptiness which some even describe as disconcerting though the architect’s aim was to move people into a higher spiritual level.

Due to financial difficulties along the way, construction of the Church of the Light took longer than was envisaged. At one time the budgetary constraints even forced the architect to consider building the church without a roof! But despite the financial problems, which delayed work by over twenty-four months, the difficulties were eventually overcome. This was largely thanks to a contracting firm, which donated roofing materials.

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