Japan. Nagasaki. Fukusai temple.

Fukusai temple this temple complex for Buddhists. The temple was built in memory of the victims of the atomic bombing of the city. Every morning, at 11:02, the exact time of the bomb explosion, you hear the sound of temple bells. The mausoleum is made in the form of a giant turtle with a great white statue, inside of which is the Foucault pendulum, height of 25 meters, it moves over 500 remains of 16 victims who died during the Second world war.

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