Zhenru Temple 真如寺Zhēnrú Sì

About Zhenru Temple

A Buddhist temple in Putuo whose main hall, built in 1320, is regarded as the oldest timber building in Shanghai and its only mid-Yuan structure. Restored to its original single-eaved form in 1963–1964, when workers found part names brushed onto its timbers by the Yuan carpenters, the hall stands in a rebuilt temple that has been an active monastery again since 1991.

How to get to Zhenru Temple

In Zhenru, Putuo District, about 500 m from Zhenru station (Lines 11 and 14).

Nearby

• Former French Concession 原法租界 under 10 km
  Plane-tree streets, garden villas and shikumen lanes for Shanghai's best city walk
• Shanghai Museum 上海博物馆 under 10 km
  Ancient Chinese bronzes, ceramics, painting and jade, now shown at Shanghai Museum East
• Yu Garden & City God Temple 豫园与城隍庙 under 10 km
  A Ming-dynasty garden of rockeries and dragon walls beside a Taoist city temple
• Lujiazui 陆家嘴 under 10 km
  Shanghai's skyline in a loop of river: spheres, a twisting tower and the Bund opposite
• The Bund & Lujiazui Skyline 外滩与陆家嘴 under 10 km
  1920s banks on one bank of the river, a sci-fi skyline on the other

Also within 20 km: Changfeng Park and Changfeng Ocean World 长风公园 (under 10 km), Yuan Dynasty Water Gate Museum 上海元代水闸遗址博物馆 (under 10 km), St. John's University Historic Campus 圣约翰大学近代建筑 (under 10 km), Marble Hall (China Welfare Institute Children's Palace) 中福会少年宫 (under 10 km), Moller Villa 马勒别墅 (under 10 km), Soong Ching-ling Mausoleum 宋庆龄陵园 (under 10 km).

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