It is located 25 km north-northeast of Osaka in the western foothills of the Yodo valley railway corridor.

The church was planned as an add-on to the wooden chapel and minister's house that already existed at the site.

One indirectly enters the church by slipping between the two volumes, one that contains the Sunday school and the other that contains the worship hall.

At this intersection of light and solid the occupant is meant to become aware of the deep division between the spiritual and the secular within themselves.

When the external factors of a city's environment require the wall to be without openings, the interior must be especially full and satisfying."

"A smooth surface was achieved by adopting a dense engineering quality mix with a slump less than 15cm (6in) and by ensuring thorough vibration with a minimum cover for the reinforcing bars of 5cm (2in) to avoid weathering problems and staining.

Because Ando's concrete is so precisely wrought and so smooth and reflective, it produces an illusion of a taut, textile surface rather than presenting it as a heavy earthbound mass.

Ando has his own teams of expert carpenters to make the formwork who compete against each other; even so, his walls contain imperfections and are uneven."