In the world there are only five churches, which has been set and demonstrate daily rotation of the Earth around the Sun Foucault pendulum. In Paris, the Pantheon, the French physicist and astronomer Jean Foucault hung his invention in 1851. In addition, the Foucault pendulum is suspended in the Basilica of San Petronio in Bologna of the Italian city of Sciences, and the church of St. John in Vilnius. From the dome of St. Isaac's Cathedral in St. Petersburg pendulum was filmed in 1986 and is now in the vault of the cathedral. Fifth temple, where you can see it is an invention - a Buddhist temple Fukusay-ji in Nagasaki.

The pendulum 25 meters long in a Japanese temple scores of time over the remains of 16,500 victims during the Second World War, Japanese. As a reminder of the victims of a nuclear explosion on Aug. 9, 1945 the temple bell rings every day at 11 am, 2 minutes - the exact time of the catastrophe. Temple Fukusay-ji Temple was destroyed the day of the atomic bombing, but was rebuilt in 1979.

The history of the temple complex started in 1628 with the founding of the Chinese monks who arrived from Fujian province. In 1650, there was a statue of Bodhisattva Kannon - the deity of mercy. Currently, the temple looks like a huge turtle that holds on its carapace giant statue of Kannon white. It is made of aluminum alloy and weighs 35 tons, its height is 18 meters. This statue towers over the rooftops and is visible from other quarters of Nagasaki.

Temple Fukusay-ji belongs to the Buddhist school Obaku and is one of four so-called "Monastery of happiness" in Nagasaki, along with temples Sofuku-ji, Kofuku-ji and Sёfuku-ji. All four temples were built by monks from China. They also have live tutors who brought China new sacred texts. Churches are also called "temples of bliss."