Pudu Temple
Pudu Temple is a Buddhist temple in Beijing, North China. Pudu Temple is situated nearby to the city gate East Glorious Gate, as well as near the suburb Donghuamen.Photo: Dirrival, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Forbidden City and Imperial Ancestral Temple.
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.
Imperial Ancestral Temple
Place of worship
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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. Imperial Ancestral Temple is situated 470 metres southwest of Pudu Temple.
Meridian Gate
City gate
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The Meridian Gate or Wumen is the southern and largest gate of the Forbidden City in Beijing, China. Unlike the other gates of the Forbidden City, the Meridian Gate has two protruding arms on either side, derived from ancient que towers traditionally used to decorate the main entrances of palaces, temples and tombs. Meridian Gate is situated 630 metres west of Pudu Temple.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Donghuamen and Jingshan Subdistrict.
Donghuamen
Suburb
Photo: Ekaterina Kvelidze, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Donghuamen Subdistrict is a subdistrict at the center of Dongcheng District, Beijing, China. Tiananmen Square is located within this subdistrict. As of 2020, it has a total population of 38,090.
Jingshan Subdistrict
Suburb
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Jingshan Subdistrict is a subdistrict in Dongcheng District, Beijing, China. It contains 8 communities. The subdistrict has a total area of 1.64 square kilometers, and as of 2020, it has a population of 25,374.
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.
Pudu Temple
- Type: Buddhist temple
- Description: building in Dongcheng District, China
- Categories: place of worship and religion
- Location: Beijing, North China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
39.91205° or 39° 54′ 43″ northLongitude
116.39842° or 116° 23′ 54″ eastOpen location code
8PFRW96X+R9OpenStreetMap ID
way 187287768OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipWikidata ID
Q2067824
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Polish—“Pudu Temple” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “Pǔdù Sì”
- Chinese: “普度寺”
- Chinese: “普渡寺”
- German: “Pekinger Pudu-Tempel”
- German: “Pudu si dadian”
- German: “Pudu si”
- German: “Pudu-Tempel”
- Indonesian: “Wihara Pudu”
- Polish: “Świątynia Pudu”
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