Nagasaki’s Bell is the monument placed in Minsk in September 2000 on Squire of Independence not far from the sculpture of Archangel Michael and Red Church. The monument is the reminder of the victims in the nuclear catastrophe.
The Bell was casted by the masters of bell molding on Japanese Catholic Church initiative. It is a twin copy of the bell «Angel” that survived in atomic bombarding of Nagasaki in August 9, 1945. There are samples of soil from various places, Jerusalem, Japanese cities Nagasaki, Hiroshima, Fukushima and from the districts affected by Chernobyl disaster in the monuments foundation. There are also capsules from Semipalatinsk Test Site or from the firing range in New Earth.
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