Santo Domingo Church Museum

Discovered during a school reconstruction in the 1990s, the remains of Santo Domingo Church sit beneath a primary school in Nagasaki and are accessed through a side door. The Dominican church was built in 1609 and destroyed just five years later under the 1614 edict banning Christianity. The preserved basement foundations, a stretch of early 17th-century Iberian stone pavement, and excavated roof tiles marked with floral crosses tell the story of Nagasaki's brief but intense Christian period. Later, the site held the mansions of successive magistrate families, and a well from the Takagi family's residence still stands along the walkway.