Stele Forest

The Stele Forest or Beilin Museum is a museum for steles and stone sculptures in Beilin District in , Northwest China. The museum, which is housed in a former Confucian Temple, has housed a growing collection of Steles since 1087.
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  • Type: Locality
  • Description: collection of ancient, medieval, and early modern Chinese stellas in Xi’an
  • Also known as: Beilin”, “Beilin Museum”, “Beilin Qu”, “Forest of Steles”, “Forest of Steles in Xi’an”, “Forest of Stellas”, “Hsi-an Pei-lin”, “Pei Lin”, “Pei Lin Museum”, “Pei-lin”, “Stele Forest of Xi’an”, “Stele Museum”, “Stella Forest”, “Stella Forest of Xi’an”, “Xi’an Beilin”, “Xi’an Beilin Museum”, “Xi’an Stele Forest”, “Xi’an Stele Museum”, and “Xi’an Stella Forest

Places of Interest

Highlights include Yongningmen and Small Wild Goose Pagoda.

Railway stop
station is a station of Line 2 of the Xi'an Metro. It started operations on 16 September 2011.

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Small or Little Wild Goose Pagoda is one of two significant Buddhist pagodas in , , China, the site of the old Han and Tang capital Chang'an.

Mosque
The Great Mosque of Xi'an is one of the largest premodern in . Although the mosque was first built in 742 AD during the Tang dynasty, its current form was largely constructed in 1384 AD during Emperor Hongwu's reign of the Ming dynasty, as recorded by the Records of Xi'an Municipality.

Stele Forest

Latitude
34.25° or 34° 15′ north
Longitude
108.941° or 108° 56′ 28″ east
Elevation
427 metres (1,401 feet)
Open location code
8P6C7W2R+2C
Geo­Names ID
7063963
Wiki­data ID
Q641427
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In Other Languages

From Belarusian to Yue Chinese—“Stele Forest” goes by many names.
  • Belarusian: Музей стэл
  • Cebuano: Beilin (kapital sa gatos sa Republikang Popular sa Tsina, Shaanxi, lat 34,23, long 108,92)
  • Cebuano: Beilin
  • Chinese: 碑林
  • Chinese: 碑林区
  • Chinese: 西安碑林
  • Dutch: Stele Forest
  • Esperanto: Arbaro de Steleoj
  • Esperanto: Stelebosko
  • French: forêt de stèles
  • French: Forêt de stèles
  • French: musée Beilin de Xi’an
  • German: Stelenwald von Xi’an
  • Greek: Δάσος των Στηλών
  • Italian: Foresta di Stele
  • Japanese: せいあんひりんはくぶつかん
  • Japanese: 西安碑林博物館
  • Korean: 비림
  • Persian: موزه جنگل سنگ‌یادبود
  • Polish: Beilin
  • Russian: Музей стел
  • Slovenian: Gozd stel
  • Swedish: Beilin (häradshuvudort i Kina, Shaanxi, lat 34,23, long 108,92)
  • Swedish: Beilinmuseet
  • Turkish: Stel Ormanı
  • Ukrainian: Ліс стел
  • Wu Chinese: 西安碑林博物馆
  • Yue Chinese: 碑林

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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Stele Forest”. Photo: 蒋亦炯, CC BY-SA 3.0.