The Immaculate Conception Cathedral, also St. Mary's Cathedral, and often known as Urakami Cathedral after its location Urakami, is a Roman Catholic cathedral located in Motoomachi, Nagasaki, Japan.
Urakami Cathedral
Urakami Cathedral, 7 January 1946
Sculptures destroyed by the atomic bomb with the rebuilt cathedral in the background
Urakami Cathedral in 1964 (before the 1980 remodeling)
Fumi-e
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A fumi-e was a likeness of Jesus or Mary onto which the religious authorities of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan required suspected Christians to step, in order to demonstrate that they were not membe
A picture of Jesus used to reveal practicing Catholics and sympathizers
A picture of the Virgin Mary