Sacred Hert Church

Sacred Hert Church is Bahrain’s first Catholic church built in the Persian Gulf for more than 70 years. The church has about 140,000 Catholics.

Saqred-Hert Church is located in the north of the city of Manama, near the school of Saqred-Hert and Manama-Semetri, in the northeast of Bahrain. The church was built in 1939 on lands donated to believers, at the request of the Bishop of the Apostolic Vicariate of South Arabia Giovanni Tirinanzi, the Emir of Bahrain - Hamad ibn Isa al-Khalif. It hosts a number of local events, the most famous being the Family Day Festival, which takes place in the first week of February each year.