Stele Forest
The Stele Forest or Beilin Museum is a museum for steles and stone sculptures in Beilin District in Xi'an, Northwest China. The museum, which is housed in a former Confucian Temple, has housed a growing collection of Steles since 1087.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: 蒋亦炯, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- 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.
Yongningmen
Railway stop
Photo: Jimmy xu wrk, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Yongningmen station is a station of Line 2 of the Xi'an Metro. It started operations on 16 September 2011.
Small Wild Goose Pagoda
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Small or Little Wild Goose Pagoda is one of two significant Buddhist pagodas in Xi'an, Shaanxi, China, the site of the old Han and Tang capital Chang'an.
The Great Mosque of Xi’an
Mosque
Photo: 長安城根喚朱雀, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Great Mosque of Xi'an, also known as the Huajue Xiang Mosque due to its location on 30 Huajue Lane, and is sometimes called the Great Eastern Mosque, is a mosque located in the eastern segments of the Xi'an Muslim Quarter, Xi'an, in the Shaanxi province of China.
Stele Forest
- Categories: history museum and collection
- Location: Xi’an, Shaanxi, Northwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
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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)”
- 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: “Beilinmuseet”
- Turkish: “Stel Ormanı”
- Ukrainian: “Ліс стел”
- Wu Chinese: “西安碑林博物馆”
- Yue Chinese: “碑林”
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