Donghuamen
Donghuamen is a suburb in Beijing, North China. Donghuamen is situated nearby to the quarter 韶九社区, as well as near 银闸社区.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Forbidden City and St. Joseph’s Wangfujing Cathedral.
Forbidden City
Photo: Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Forbidden City, located at the centre of Beijing, was the main palace of Imperial China for five centuries, until the early 20th century. It today houses the Palace Museum, one of China's largest national museums, with an extensive collection based on the former imperial collection.
St. Joseph’s Wangfujing Cathedral
Church
Photo: BrokenSphere, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St. Joseph's Church, commonly known as Wangfujing Church or Dongtang, is an early 20th-century Romanesque Revival church that is one of the four historic Catholic churches in the Archdiocese of Beijing.
Imperial Ancestral Temple
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The Imperial Ancestral Temple, or Taimiao of Beijing, is a historic site in the Imperial City, just outside the Forbidden City, where during both the Ming and Qing dynasties, sacrificial ceremonies were held on the most important festival occasions in honor of the imperial family's ancestors.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Central Dongcheng and Dongsi.
Central Dongcheng
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Dongcheng District is in Beijing. It means "east city" and appropriately enough covers the eastern half of the old, imperial city. Most visitors to the city will come here to visit both Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City, the former imperial palace.
Dongsi
Suburb
Photo: Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Dongsi is the name of an intersection and surrounding neighborhood in Dongcheng District, Beijing. Dongsi, at the intersection of what is now Dongsi Avenues North, South and West and Chaoyangmen Inner Street, dates to the Yuan dynasty.
Gulou
Photo: fangchen, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Gulou is a part of Dongcheng District in Beijing, China. The name "Gulou" translates to Drum Tower, which is one of the main attractions here. Gulou is considered the most charming area in Beijing.
Donghuamen
- Type: Suburb
- Category: locality
- Location: Beijing, North China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
39.91466° or 39° 54′ 53″ northLongitude
116.4011° or 116° 24′ 4″ eastOpen location code
8PFRWC72+VCOpenStreetMap ID
node 8985515547OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Korean—“Donghuamen” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “东华门街道”
- Korean: “둥화먼가도”
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Localities in the Area
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