Shitenno-ji Eireido (Old Bell Tower)

Shitennoji Goryeongdang is a memorial hall within the grounds of Shitennoji in Tennoji, Osaka, visible beyond the cemetery and the approach to Shitennojimae Yuhigaoka Station. It began as a bell tower honoring Prince Shotoku, and it once held the world's largest great bell. The hall enshrines altars and memorial tablets for war dead and victims of major earthquakes and disasters, and a memorial service for peace is held on the 21st of each month and on August 15. The ceiling retains a dragon painting by Yukawa Shodo from 1907, and the principal image is a wooden Amida Nyorai statue.