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Kagoshima Shrine (鹿児島神宮, Kagoshima-jingū) is a Shinto shrine located in the Hayatomachi-uchi neighborhood of the city of Kirishima, Kagoshima prefecture, Japan. It is the ichinomiya of former Ōsumi Province. The main festival of the shrine are held annually on August 15 by the lunar calendar. [1]
Located in Kagoshima, Japan, it was named for missionary priest Francis Xavier, who arrived there in August 1549 [3] and founded a Catholic mission. In 1908 the first stone church was built on the site in recognition of their missionary efforts, but was destroyed during World War II , being replaced by a wooden church in 1949 and the present ...
Kagoshima Spinning Mill site (ja:鹿児島紡績所 跡) Kagoshima bōsekijo ato: Kagoshima: Bakumatsu to Meiji period industrial site; inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List as one of the Sites of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining [5] Kagoshima Spinning Mill site
Father Issa Thaljieh, a 40-year-old Greek Orthodox parish priest at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, kneels at the spot where tradition says Jesus was born. (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times ...
The Diocese of Kagoshima (Latin: Dioecesis Kagoshimaensis, Japanese: カトリック鹿児島教区) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archbishop of Nagasaki 長崎, in southern Japan. Its episcopal see is the Cathedral of St. Francis Xavier (Xavier Church), in the city of Kagoshima.
Kagoshima Prefecture corresponds to the ancient Japanese provinces Ōsumi and Satsuma, including the northern part of the Ryukyu Islands (). [4] This region played a key role in the Meiji Restoration (Saigō Takamori), and the city of Kagoshima was an important naval base during Japan's 20th century wars and the home of admiral Tōgō Heihachirō.
Francisco Xavier, [8] [9] Cosme de Torres (a Jesuit priest) and Juan Fernandez were the first who arrived in Kagoshima with hopes to bring Catholicism to Japan. The gravestone (second from the left), in Melaka's St Paul's Church, of Pedro Martins S.J., the second bishop of Funai, who had died in February 1598. [10] The main goal was evangelism ...
The campus' centerpiece is a larger temple, called the Akshardham, which measures almost 90,000 square feet, reaches 191 feet into the sky and was made from 1.9 million cubic feet of marble and ...