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Oura Catholic Church
⌂ 5-3 Minami-yamatemachi
v Oura Tenshudo # 8am–
6pm daily
This white church was built in
1864 under the direction of
EXPERIENCE Kyushu priest who became the first
Bernard Petitjean, a French
Bishop of Nagasaki. It was
erected in order to serve the
foreign community that
settled in Nagasaki after the
new trade treaties were
signed but, soon after its
foundation, Petitjean was Examining photographs and artifacts
approached by a group of at the Atomic Bomb Museum
Japanese Christians who had
been practicing their faith in
secret since it was outlawed. visiting the city. Dis plays depict days after the bombing of
Classed as a National Nagasaki before and after the Hiroshima. The intended
Treasure, Oura is one of the explosion and also the recon- target was the nearby ship-
oldest churches in Japan and struction. It traces with great yards. The blast killed an
the country’s earliest Gothic objectivity and fairness the estimated 75,000, and 75,000
wooden structure. A wooden events leading up to the bom- more were injured in its wake.
building beside the church bing, the his tory of nuclear Small wonder that the citizens
contains items connected weapons, and the evolution of of Nagasaki have become
with the persecution of the international peace move- staunch advocates of world
Nagasaki’s early Christians. ment. Photographs, artifacts, peace, erecting several monu-
videos, and dioramas vividly ments in the park, in cluding a
recreate the tragedy. A clock, 30-ft (9-m) tall Peace Statue.
frozen at the moment the A 1959 recon struction of the
8 " bomb exploded, is one of Urakami Catholic Church,
Atomic Bomb Museum the most poignant items. which stood at the epicenter,
stands near the park.
⌂ 7-8 Hirano-machi v
Atomic Bomb Museum
# 8:30am–5:30pm daily 9
(to 6:30pm May–Aug) Peace Park 0 "
∑ nagasakipeace.jp Confucius Shrine
v Matsuyama-machi
This museum ⌂ 10-36 Ouramachi
is a must for A black stone pillar marks the v Oura Tenshudo
anybody spot where the US detonated # 8:30am–5pm daily
its second atom bomb at
11:02 on August 9, Vibrant yellow roof tiles and
1945, three vermilion walls instantly
announce this building as
a shrine dedicated to the
scholar Confucius. Built by
the city’s Chinese community
in 1893, the repairs and exten-
sions accorded the shrine
after it was damaged in the
Seibo Kitamura's atomic bombing included the
towering Peace addition in 1982 of a National
Statue in Nagasaki's Museum of Chinese History.
poignant Peace Park The antiquities on display
are on loan from the Chinese
National Museum and the
prestigious Palace Museum
in Beijing.

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