Egypt woke up to a scene of devastation on Thursday, one day after security forces cleared two sit-ins occupied by supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi. According to Egypt's Health Ministry, the violence left more than 500 people dead and 3,700 injured.

A day after the bloodshed, little remained of the Rabaa al-Adawiyah mosque in Cairo's Nasr City, the epicenter of the largest Muslim Brotherhood protest camp. "They smashed through our walls. Police and soldiers, they fired tear gas at children. We are peaceful, no weapons, we didn't fire a shot, we threw stones. They continued to fire at protesters even when we begged them to stop," 39-year-old Saleh Abdulaziz told Reuters on Wednesday.

Take a look at these powerful photos, documenting the destruction of the religious shrine in Cairo.

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Egyptian men walk through debris and rubble inside the burnt down mosque of Rabaa al-Adawiya on August 15, 2013 in Cairo, Egypt. (KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/Getty Images)

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An Egyptian walks among the burned remains of the Rabaah al-Adawiya mosque, in the center of the largest protest camp of supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi, that was cleared by security forces, in the district of Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Aug. 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Ahmed Gomaa)

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Egyptians inspect the inside of the burned Rabaah al-Adawiya mosque, where supporters of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi had a protest camp in Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Aug. 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

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Egyptian firefighters battle flames at the Rabaah al-Adawiya mosque, in the center of the largest protest camp of supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi, that was cleared by security forces, in the district of Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Aug. 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

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Egyptians walk among the burned remains of the Rabaah al-Adawiya mosque, in the center of the largest protest camp of supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi, that was cleared by security forces, in the district of Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Aug. 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

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Egyptians tour the inside of the charred Rabaah al-Adawiya mosque, where supporters of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi had a protest camp in Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Aug. 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

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Egyptians tour the inside of the charred Rabaah al-Adawiya mosque, where supporters of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi had a protest camp in Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Aug. 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

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Egyptians walk among the burned remains of the Rabaah al-Adawiya mosque, in the center of the largest protest camp of supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi, that was cleared by security forces, in the district of Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Aug. 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Ahmed Gomaa)

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  • Supporters of ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi run from Egyptian security forces firing towards them during clashes in Cairo's Nasr City district, Egypt, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)

  • Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood supporters run from police in a street leading to Rabaa al-Adawiya protest camp in Cairo on August 14, 2013.

  • Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood supporters run from police in a street leading to Rabaa al-Adawiya protest camp in Cairo on August 14, 2013.

  • Egyptian riot police are seen in a street leading to a camp of supporters of Egypt's ousted president in Cairo's Rabaa al-Adawiya as they try to disperse them on August 14, 2013.

  • Supporters of Egypt's ousted president Mohamed Morsi and members of the Muslim Brotherhood run from tear gas smoke shot by police to disperse a pro-Morsi camp, on August 14, 2013 in Cairo.

  • Supporters of Egypt's ousted president Mohamed Morsi and members of the Muslim Brotherhood run from tear gas smoke shot by police to disperse a pro-Morsi camp, on August 14, 2013 in Cairo.

  • Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood supporters run from tear gas fired by Egyptian police as they try to disperse supporters of Egypt's ousted president Mohamed Morsi in a street leading to the Rabaa al-Adawiya protest camp in Cairo on August 14, 2013.

  • Egyptians help a woman suffering from tear gas exposure after canisters were fired by Egyptian police as they try to disperse a pro-Morsi camp in a street leading to Rabaa al-Adawiya in Cairo on August 14, 2013.

  • A supporter of ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi reacts during clashes with Egyptian security forces in Rabaah Al-Adawiya in Cairo's Nasr City district, Egypt, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)

  • An Egyptian security force checks his weapon as they clear a sit-in camp set up by supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi near Cairo University in Cairo's Giza district, Egypt, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Hussein Tallal)

  • Egyptian security forces takes a break as they clear a sit-in camp set up by supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi near Cairo University in Cairo's Giza district, Egypt, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Hussein Tallal)

  • Supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi walk through their sit-in camp as Egyptian security forces clear the sit-in camp set up near Cairo University in Cairo's Giza district, Egypt, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Hussein Tallal)

  • Supporters of ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi take cover from Egyptian security forces fire during clashes in Rabaah Al-Adawiya in Cairo's Nasr City district, Egypt, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)

  • Egyptian security forces detain supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi as they clear a sit-in camp set up near Cairo University in Cairo's Giza district, Egypt, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Hussein Tallal)

  • Supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi come out of their makeshift hut at their sit-in camp as Egyptian security forces clear the camp set up near Cairo University in Cairo's Giza district, Egypt, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Hussein Tallal)

  • A supporter of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi runs to avoid smoke and tear gas as Egyptian security forces clear a sit-in camp set up near Cairo University in Cairo's Giza district, Egypt, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Hussein Tallal)

  • A man tends a supporter of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi as Egyptian security forces clear a sit-in camp set up near Cairo University in Cairo's Giza district, Egypt, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Hussein Tallal)

  • Egyptian security forces and a man carry a man as security forces clear a sit-in camp set up by supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi near Cairo University in Cairo's Giza district, Egypt, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Hussein Tallal)

  • An Egyptian security force escorts a supporter of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi as security forces clear a sit-in camp set up near Cairo University in Cairo's Giza district, Egypt, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Hussein Tallal)

  • A supporter of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi raises his arm as Egyptian security forces detain him at a sit-in camp set up near Cairo University in Cairo's Giza district, Egypt, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Hussein Tallal)

  • An injured supporter of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi lies on the ground as Egyptian security forces clear a sit-in camp set up near Cairo University in Cairo's Giza district, Egypt, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Hussein Tallal)

  • Two boys hold on to a supporter of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi as Egyptian security forces clear a sit-in camp set up near Cairo University in Cairo's Giza district, Egypt, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Hussein Tallal)

  • An injured supporter of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi lies on the ground as Egyptian security forces clear a sit-in camp set up near Cairo University in Cairo's Giza district, Egypt, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Hussein Tallal)

  • Supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi evacuate a wounded man as Egyptian security forces clear a sit-in by Morsi's supporters in the Nasr City district of Cairo on Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

  • A supporter of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi shoots a slingshot against Egyptian security forces during clashes in Rabaah Al-Adawiya in Cairo's Nasr City district, Egypt, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)

  • Supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi count bodies in a makeshift morgue after police swept into their encampment with armored vehicles and bulldozers in the Nasr City district of Cairo Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)

  • A supporter of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi sits next to a woman lying down on the floor amid smoke as Egyptian security forces clear their sit-in camp set up near Cairo University in Cairo's Giza district, Egypt, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Hussein Tallal)

  • An Egyptian security force kicks a supporter of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi as they clear a sit-in camp set up near Cairo University in Cairo's Giza district, Egypt, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Hussein Tallal)

  • A makeshift hut burns down as Egyptian security forces clear a sit-in camp set up by supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi near Cairo University in Cairo's Giza district, Egypt, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Hussein Tallal)

  • Smoke rises from a building by a sit-in camp set up by supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi near Cairo University as Egyptian security forces clear the camp in Cairo's Giza district, Egypt, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Hussein Tallal)

  • Supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi gather at their makeshift hut at their sit-in camp to avoid smoke as Egyptian security forces clear the sit-in camp set up near Cairo University in Cairo's Giza district, Egypt, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Hussein Tallal)

  • Supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi try to avoid smoke as Egyptian security forces clear their sit-in camp set up near Cairo University in Cairo's Giza district, Egypt, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Hussein Tallal)

  • Egyptian security forces detain a supporter of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi as they clear a sit-in camp set up near Cairo University in Cairo's Giza district, Egypt, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Hussein Tallal)

  • A supporter of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi yells amid smoke as Egyptian security forces clear a sit-in camp set up near Cairo University in Cairo's Giza district, Egypt, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Hussein Tallal)

  • An Egyptian security force escorts a supporter of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi as security forces clear a sit-in camp set up near Cairo University in Cairo's Giza district, Egypt, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Hussein Tallal)

  • Supporters of ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi clash with security forces in Cairo's Nasr City district, Egypt, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)

  • Wounded supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi lie on the floor of a makeshift hospital at a sit-in in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)

  • A member of the Egyptian security forces holds up a copy of the Quran they clear the smaller of the two sit-ins by supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi, near the Cairo University campus in Giza, Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Imad Abdul Rahman)

  • A supporter of ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi passes a fire barricade carrying a gasoline bomb during clashes against security forces in Cairo's Nasr City district, Egypt, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)

  • A police vehicle is pushed off of the 6th of October bridge by protesters close to the largest sit-in by supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi in the eastern Nasr City district of Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Aly Hazzaa, El Shorouk Newspaper)

  • A supporter of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi moves a portable gas tank away from fire at Morsi supporters' sit-in camp as Egyptian security forces clear the sit-in camp set up near Cairo University in Cairo's Giza district, Egypt, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Hussein Tallal)

  • An Egyptian security force and a man carry a protester as security forces clear a sit-in camp set up by supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi near Cairo University in Cairo's Giza district, Egypt, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Hussein Tallal)

  • Supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi carry another as Egyptian security forces clear their sit-in camp set up near Cairo University in Cairo's Giza district, Egypt, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Hussein Tallal)

  • A poster of Egypt's ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi hangs at a burnt-down hut of his supporters at a sit-in camp after Egyptian security forces clear the sit-in camp near Cairo University in Cairo's Giza district, Egypt, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Hussein Tallal)

  • A supporter of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi holds onto an Egyptian security force as they clear a sit-in camp set up near Cairo University in Cairo's Giza district, Egypt, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Hussein Tallal)

  • A supporter of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi tries to extinguish fire at their sit-in camp as Egyptian security forces clear the sit-in camp near Cairo University in Cairo's Giza district, Egypt, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Hussein Tallal)

  • A supporter of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi approaches Egyptian security forces as they clear a sit-in camp set up near Cairo University in Cairo's Giza district, Egypt, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Hussein Tallal)

  • A man lies on the ground as Egyptian security forces clear a sit-in camp set up by supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi near Cairo University in Cairo's Giza district, Egypt, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Hussein Tallal)

  • A supporter of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi expresses her feeling as Egyptian security forces clear a sit-in camp set up near Cairo University in Cairo's Giza district, Egypt, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Hussein Tallal)

  • A bullet hole is seen in the front of a gas mask belonging to a supporter of ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi in Cairo's Nasr City district, Egypt, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)

  • A police vehicle is pushed off of the 6th of October bridge by protesters close to the largest sit-in by supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi in the eastern Nasr City district of Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Sabry Khaled, El Shorouk Newspaper)