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Ancient Buddhist hall with 1,000-year-old ‘eternal flame’ burns in Japan

Euronews · May 21, 2026, 7:32 PM

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A Buddhist hall on Japan’s Miyajima Island that housed an “eternal flame” believed to have burned for more than 1,000 years was destroyed in a fire, with aerial footage showing the building engulfed in flames.

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