The Head Temple Sojiji Soin (Ancestor Temple)

The Head Temple Sojiji Soin (ancestor temple)

This is the ancestor temple of Sojiji, the head temple of the Soto sect of Zen Buddhism, and it has a history of about seven hundred years.
The head temple was relocated from Ishikawa to Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama city after a fire that devastated it in the Meiji period (1868-1912).
The ancestor temple has, however, been re-erected here to transmit to the present the solemnity of the time of its first opening.