At the top of the Omote-sando, on the left, is the five-story pagoda of the shrine, decorated with the 12 signs of the Asian zodiac and the hollyhock crest of the Tokugawa family.
The Tokugawa family's crest is on the pagoda.
The church originally belonged to the religious community of St. Catherine's monastery in the Sinai (now part of Egypt), and it acted as a center of learning.