Xibe Ancestral Temple (Taiping Temple) 锡伯族家庙Xíbózú Jiāmiào

About Xibe Ancestral Temple (Taiping Temple)

A Tibetan Buddhist (Gelug) temple founded in 1707 as the family temple of the Xibe people stationed in Mukden, and the place where Xibe soldiers and their families gathered in 1764 before the move west to Ili, which the Xibe still mark as the Westward Migration Festival. The halls standing today are a rebuilding finished in 2004, with a front hall, middle hall, main hall, meditation hall and monks' quarters. It stands among the shops and stages of the Old North Market, close to Huangsi Temple.

How to get to Xibe Ancestral Temple (Taiping Temple)

In the Old North Market area of Heping district, about 3 km east-north-east of Shenyang railway station, among the heritage buildings of the Old North Market area.

Nearby

• Mukden Palace 沈阳故宫 under 10 km
  The Manchu palace where the Qing dynasty was proclaimed, years before it took Beijing

Also within 20 km: Old North Market (Laobeishi) 老北市 (under 10 km), CPC Manchuria Provincial Committee Site 中共满洲省委旧址 (under 10 km), Former Liaoning Main Station (Old North Station) 辽宁总站旧址 (under 10 km), Zhongshan Square Historic Buildings, Shenyang 沈阳中山广场建筑群 (under 10 km), Shenyang War Crimes Tribunal Site (1956) 审判日本战犯特别军事法庭旧址 (under 10 km), Sacred Heart of Jesus Cathedral, Shenyang 沈阳天主堂 (under 10 km).

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