Church of the Light Sunday School hall (光の教会 日曜学校)

When the parish was founded in 1972, it first built a very plain church of mortar-coated timber, which looked like an ordinary house. It stood where the parish hall stands today. After the completion of Ando's chapel in 1989, it was kept for the church school and other uses.

The Great Hanshin-Awaji earthquake of 1995 left it leaning slightly to the south and it became hard to preserve, so it was rebuilt. The new hall, again designed by Tadao Ando, was completed in 1999 by the contractor Zenitaka. The chapel, the hall and the parsonage are all his work.

As in the chapel, the floor and chairs are of wood, but here the wood keeps its natural, pale colour, which gives a quite different feel. The congregation's seats are on one level. The hall also has an upper floor, toilets and a kitchen. It was designed to form a whole with the chapel.

On the ground floor is kept a model of the Church of the Light made in 1988 by Ando's office.

The hall is used mainly for the church school for children.

The hall stands on the site of the Church of the Light, where regular tours are suspended until further notice. The Sunday service, open to everyone, receives visitors only after prior enquiry through the website's form; visitors come by public transport.