Oura Catholic Church Nagasaki

5-3 Minami-yamate, Nagasaki , Nagasaki, Kyushu-Okinawa, Japan - Phone: 81 (0)95 823 2628
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    The Day we came back home, in the wrong century

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    ... interesting and mildly amusing! After a few hours of meandering through Dejima, we went for our last stop; Oura Catholic Church. Oura Catholic Church is considered the oldest standing Christian church in Japan, and is the only Western buidling to be ...

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    Nagasaki - Day 2

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    ... Newark, our first (and only) opera visit. Just outside the gardens and a bit downhill is the oldest Christian church in Japan. Oura Catholic Church was constructed in 1864 after Japan's era of seclusion came to an end and Western merchants started to ...

  • 3

    Nagasaki

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    ... , of Puccini`s famous opera, set in Nagasaki, of `Madame Butterfly.`  Ten popular sights (Glover Garden, Oura Catholic Church, Confucian Shrine and Chinese Historical Museum, Site of the Former Dutch Factory at Dejima, Nagasaki Museum of History ...

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    Nagasaki

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    ... with ground-boxes of flowers and small bushes. Steep lanes with souvenir shops  on either side, leading up to Oura Catholic Church, built by French missionaries in 1865. This Church, constructed in the Gothic style and Japan`s oldest wooden church, ...

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    Fat Man

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    Our Road Scholar group visited the Peace Park and Atom Bomb museum as well as Glover Gardens and Oura Catholic Church. On August 9, 1945 at 11:02am the US dropped Fat Man and atomic bomb that exploded 500 meters above Nagasaki killing 150,000 people. It ...