Sacred Heart Church, Manama

The Sacred Heart Church (Arabic: كنيسة القلب المقدس) is a Roman Catholic parish in Manama, Bahrain.

As economy in the Persian Gulf region grew due to the discovery of oil reserves, more Catholic migrant workers arrived in Bahrain.

Through the next 30 years, the number of Catholics grew in the region, mainly expatriates and migrant workers from South and Southeast Asia.

Many parishioners have nationalities from India, the Philippines, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Arabs (mostly from Lebanon but also from Palestine and Syria).

[6] The church also hosts a number of communal activities, the most famous of which is the Family Day festival which occurs in the first week of February every year.