Tabira Catholic Church, Catholic church in Hirado, Japan.

Tabira Catholic Church is a red-brick church in Hirado with a three-storey rectangular tower projecting from the facade, topped by an octagonal domed bell tower. The brickwork is laid in English bond with alternating coloured bricks, and pale stone trim outlines the arched openings. It was designed and built by Yosuke Tetsukawa and completed in 1918.

In the Meiji era, priests of the Paris Foreign Missions Society, including Father Raguet and Father de Rotz, bought wasteland here and settled eight families from Kuroshima in the Kujukushima islands and from the Sotome district of Nagasaki. A small meeting hall was replaced by a temporary chapel in 1879. Father Fujiyoshi Nakata, who arrived in 1914, planned the present church; it was designed and built by Yosuke Tetsukawa and dedicated in May 1918 to the Twenty-Six Martyrs of Japan, at a total cost of 20,000 yen.

The church is dedicated to the Twenty-Six Martyrs of Japan, crucified in Nagasaki in 1597. Its stained-glass windows were made over two years by the German artist Maximilian Bartz. The brickwork is laid in English bond, with courses of alternating brick colours visible on the facade.

The church stands on a hill in Tabira, about five minutes by car from Nishidabira Station or ten from Tabira-Hiradoguchi Station on the Matsuura Railway. The Nishihi bus stops at "Tenshudomae", but departures are few. Inside, remove your hat, keep quiet, touch nothing, stay out of the railed sanctuary, and do not eat, drink or smoke; photography is generally not allowed, and entry is barred during Mass and weddings or funerals.

The building earned its status as an Important Cultural Property of Japan because of its architectural merit and historical connection to persecuted Christians. This recognition reflects how the structure documents a pivotal moment in the region's religious history.