St. Joseph the Worker Church (Macau)

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St. Joseph the Worker Church (Chinese: 聖若瑟勞工主保堂; Portuguese: Igreja de São José Operário) is a Roman Catholic church in Macau, China. It is located in the Nossa Senhora de Fátima parish in the Iao Hon district. Groundbreaking was in 1998 and it was completed in 1999. The church was designed by architect Luis Tomás Piñeiro Nagy. Inside, fourteen oriental icons illustrate important Christian events from Abraham to Pentecost. The main altar features a statue of the Holy Family. It is the neighborhood’s main church, and in 1999 the parish was entrusted by Bishop Domingos Lam Ka-tseung to the Combonian Fathers.