The Urakami district has its own history as a place of Christian propagation since the late 16th century. Christian believers, who had survived the long successive Christian persecution and had protected a faint light of their faith ever since, piled up bricks one by one for 20 long years to build the Urakami Cathedral and completed it in 1914.
When the atomic bomb exploded, there were two priests and 24 believers present in the cathedral. The cathedral collapsed from the blast and then burst into flames. All of the people inside the cathedral were buried under the rubble of the demolished building and died. It is said that the number of dead among the believers amounted to about 8,500 from 12,000 in the Urakami district. In this section the saint statues blackened by the heat rays and damaged by the blast of the atomic bombing are exhibited.
