Asukadera Temple

Established in 596, around 60 years after the acquaintance of Buddhism with Japan, Asukadera was built as Japan's first full-scale sanctuary. It was initially an extensive complex, yet now it comprises of a modest bunch of structures that go back just a couple of hundred years.

Its fundamental question of love, notwithstanding, is the most established known Japanese statue of Buddha and goes back to 20 years after the sanctuary's establishing.

The sanctuary was worked at the command of Soga Umako, an individual from the effective Soga faction. The faction had bolstered Buddhism since its presentation, and crushed the opponent Mononobe group who contradicted the outside religion.

At the point when the ruler and the capital city were moved out from the Asuka area, so did the religious foundation appended to the sanctuary, building up itself in the new capital of Nara as Gangoji Temple. Therefore, Asukadera is additionally alluded to as the "first Gangoji".