Main Hall of Xingfu Temple, Yanshi 偃师兴福寺大殿Yǎnshī Xīngfú Sì Dàdiàn

About Main Hall of Xingfu Temple, Yanshi

The one surviving hall of Xingfu Temple, founded in 1509 and repaired under the Kangxi emperor and again in the Republican era; the courtyard around it later served as the Gaoya village school. The hall has a double-eaved hip-and-gable roof of green glazed tiles, and inside its timber frame is built differently on each side, with long beams on the east and full-height columns on the west, a layout known locally as 'east beams, west columns'.

How to get to Main Hall of Xingfu Temple, Yanshi

At Gaoya village, Gaolong town, about 4 km south of the Erlitou site museum and some 30 km east of central Luoyang by road.

Nearby

• White Horse Temple 白马寺 10 km
  China's first Buddhist temple, with Thai, Indian and Burmese halls beside it
• Longmen Grottoes 龙门石窟 20 km
  Some 100,000 Buddhas carved into riverside cliffs, watched over by a serene giant
• Shaolin Temple 少林寺 30 km
  The cradle of Chan Buddhism and kung fu, at the foot of Mount Song

Also within 20 km: Erlitou Site Museum of the Xia Capital 二里头夏都遗址博物馆 (under 10 km), Yanshi Shang City Site 偃师商城遗址 (under 10 km), Gongling Mausoleum of the Tang 恭陵 (10 km), Old City of Luoyang (Han–Wei Luoyang) 汉魏洛阳故城 (10 km), Haoze International Tulip Park 豪泽国际郁金香花海欢乐城 (10 km), Shuiquan Grottoes 水泉石窟 (10 km).

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