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Yanqing Temple 延庆寺Yánqìng Sì
National heritage site · Xinzhou, Shanxi
- Time needed
- 1 hour
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Xinzhou
- Region
- Shanxi
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- National heritage site
About Yanqing Temple
A small temple in Shanwen village whose Jin-dynasty main hall, the Great Buddha Hall, is the only original building left; the other halls were rebuilt in recent years. The hall has three bays under a hipped-gable roof with very wide eaves, few columns inside, and oblique bracket arms that are unusual in a building of this size. The hall no longer holds its original statues, and the lower part of a Song-dynasty sutra pillar dated 1035 stands in the front courtyard.
How to get to Yanqing Temple
In Shanwen village, Yangbai township, about 16 km west of Wutai. Like many village temples in Shanxi it is often locked, so ask in the village for the caretaker.
Nearby
- Foguang Temple 佛光寺 30 km
A Tang timber hall of 857 on a quiet hillside, still filled with its Tang clay statues - Yanmen Pass 雁门关 50 km
A Ming fortress gate on the Inner Great Wall, its ramparts running up the mountain ridges - Mount Wutai 五台山 50 km
Temples, a towering white stupa and yellow-tiled roofs below five flat-topped holy peaks
Also within 20 km: Nanchan Temple 南禅寺 (under 10 km), Hongfu Temple, Beishe 洪福寺 (10 km), Former Residence of Xu Xiangqian 徐向前故居 (20 km), Guangji Temple, Wutai 五台广济寺 (20 km), Former Residence of Yan Xishan, Hebian 阎家大院 (20 km).
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