The Assumption of Mary Cathedral also called Memorial Cathedral of World Peace in central Hiroshima
The Assumption of Mary Cathedral also called Memorial Cathedral of World Peace is the name given to a religious building that is affiliated with the Catholic Church, which is located in the city of Hiroshima in the Asian country of Japan. The temple was designed by Togo Murano follows the Roman or Latin rite and serves as the principal church of the Diocese of Hiroshima which was created in 1959 with the bull Qui arcano of Pope John XXIII. Pope John Paul II visited the temple on his tour of Japan in February 1981. It was built in tribute to the victims of war and the nuclear bomb dropped on the city. Father Enomiya Lassalle, who was exposed to the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, began construction in 1950 and opened in 1954. Picture shows the interior of the Church.
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Location: Catholic Church, 4-42 Noboricho, Naka Ward, Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan
Photo credit: © David Warren / Alamy / Afripics
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