4 September 2022 | Author/Destination: Asia / Asien | Rubric: General, UNESCO World Heritage
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Hidden Christian Sites in the Nagasaki Region is a group of twelve sites in
Nagasaki Prefecture and
Kumamoto Prefecture relating to the history of
Christianity in Japan. The Nagasaki churches are unique in the sense that each tells a story about the
revival of Christianity after a long period of
official suppression. Proposed jointly in 2007 for inscription on the
UNESCO World Heritage List under criteria
ii, iii, iv, v, and vi, the submission named at the time
Churches and Christian Sites in Nagasaki on the
Tentative List, was recognized on January 30, 2018, as a World Heritage Site.
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