The Pure Land True Sect of the Japanese Buddhist Pure Land True Sect has 10,500 temples and 12 million believers in Japan and around the world. One of them is Nishihonganji Temple, which is diagonally opposite the Lushun Coast Bridge.

Japanese Buddhism Pure Land Zhenzong Vow Sect General Temple has 10,500 temples and 12 million believers in Japan and around the world. One of them is , Nishi Honganji, which is diagonally opposite the Lushun Coast Bridge. Before the Russo-Japanese War

Coast Bridge diagonally opposite Nishihonganji

1 Russo-Japanese War , this place was the Lushun office of the Chinese merchant Jifengtai . After Japan occupied the University of Viet Nam, it confiscated all his property, demolished the office, and built a Nishihonganji Villa villa. In the early 1950s, building materials were required when building the Lushun Jiefang Bridge, and the buildings on the Nagu Temple on the Baiyushan were demolished. The ashes in the catacombs were moved to Nishihongan Temple and were later buried at the foot of the mountain south of the Soviet Martyrs Cemetery of Sanliqiao. In the 1960s, the building of Nishihonganji still existed and was later demolished.

stone part is the original building

After Nishi Honganji was demolished, there are two existing buildings, one is the courtyard with a cement cylindrical building, and the other is the base of the small pavilion pictured above. When you look back at the first photo, the pavilion is very beautifully built. After the pavilion was demolished, someone used the original foundation to build a small house with red bricks. Later, some people said that the pavilion was a home-looking pavilion. Whenever the night was late, the lonely ghosts who acted as cannon fodder in Nishihongan Temple came out to stand in the pavilion and looked at their hometown. This description makes people feel a little scary. In fact, the small pavilion is a bell tower, with a large bronze bell hanging inside. The temples have the custom of regularly ringing bells. During the steelmaking process in 1958, a class teacher named Han led the students back to school with a cart. This is a typical prodigal act of smashing a tripod and selling copper. I found the student who participated in pulling the cart back then, who was already in his 80s. A few years ago, Japan spent a lot of money to transport it back in Taiwan.

Freshly painted small house

Two years ago, the military port park was renovated, surrounding buildings were painted, and the small houses built with demolished bell tower were also painted. According to Chinese folk sayings, Nishihongan Temple is a temple, especially it has stored a large number of ashes, which is not suitable for building residential houses. In the late 1990s, the then mayor of Dalian had a plan to completely demolish the building in front of a Navy's gate in order to alleviate the traffic pressure on the road in front of the military port park, and build a large parking lot there. It should be said that before Baiyu Mountain opened the hole, this plan was still very creative.