St. Andrew's Cathedral, Yokohama (横浜聖アンデレ教会) is a Christian church located in Yokohama, Japan, and is the diocesan cathedral of the Diocese of Yokohama, which includes all Anglican-Episcopal churches in Chiba, Kanagawa and Yamanashi Prefectures.
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The Christian mission to Yokohama was started in 1863 by M. B. Bailey in the foreign concession (in Japanese: 横浜居留地). St. Andrew's Church was formed at a rented house in 1885, and its Japanese-speaking congregation became the present-day St. Andrew's Church, while its English-speaking congregation moved to Yokohama Christ Church on the Bluff (in Japanese: 横浜山手) which after the Second World War added a Japanese congregation that became Yokohama Yamate Anglican-Episcopal Church (in Japanese: 横浜山手聖公会教会).
Since 1885, St. Andrew's Church moved to a few places in Yokohama, and the church buildings were lost twice, in the Kantō Earthquake of 1923 and the Yokohama Air Raid of 1945. The present-day building was built in 1955.[1] [2] Its current address is:
During its history, Reverend Alexander Croft Shaw of Canada, who founded the summer resort at Karuizawa, and Reverend Walter Weston of England, who promoted alpinism in Japan by climbing the Japan Alps mountains, served at this church.