Temple of Heaven

The Temple of Heaven is a complex of imperial religious Confucian buildings situated in the southeastern part of central . The complex was visited by the Emperors of the Ming and then later restored by the Qing dynasties for annual ceremonies of prayer to Heaven for a good harvest and other seasonal rites.
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  • Land parcel
  • …dates from 1420
  • Description: imperial complex of religious buildings in Beijing, China
  • Also known as
    “Imperial temple of heaven”
    “Temple of Heaven, Bejing”
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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include National Natural History Museum of China and Beijing Stomatological Hospital (Tiantan Branch), Capital Medical University.
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The … is situated 1 km west of Temple of Heaven.
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is situated 750 metres southwest of Temple of Heaven.
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was the former front gate of the outer city of . is situated 1¼ km southwest of Temple of Heaven.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Tiyuguanlu and Tianqiao.
Subdistrict is a southeastern subdistrict of the Dongcheng District, , China.
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Temple of Heaven

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Latitude
39.87989° or 39° 52′ 48″ north
Longitude
116.40418° or 116° 24′ 15″ east
Open location code
8PFRVCH3+XM
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Wiki­data ID
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Temple of Heaven” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Hemeltempel”
  • Arabic: “معبد السماء”
  • Arabic: “معبدالسماء”
  • Armenian: “Երկնքի տաճար”
  • Asturian: “Templu del Cielu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Səma məbədi”
  • Balinese: “Tian Tan”
  • Basque: “Zeruko Tenplua”
  • Belarusian: “Храм Неба”
  • Bulgarian: “Храм на небето”
  • Bulgarian: “Храмът на небето”
  • Burmese: “ကောင်းကင်ဘုံကျောင်းတော်”
  • Catalan: “Temple del Cel”
  • Chinese: “Tiāntán”
  • Chinese: “北京天坛”
  • Chinese: “天坛”
  • Chinese: “天坛公园”
  • Chinese: “天壇”
  • Chinese: “天壇公園”
  • Chinese: “祭天的寺庙”
  • Chinese: “祭天的寺廟”
  • Croatian: “Nebeski hram”
  • Czech: “Chrám nebes”
  • Dutch: “Hemeltempel”
  • Dutch: “Tempel van de Hemel”
  • Dutch: “Temple of Heaven”
  • Dutch: “Tian Tan”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “معبد السماء”
  • Esperanto: “Ĉiela Altaro”
  • Esperanto: “La Ĉiela Altaro”
  • Finnish: “Taivaan temppeli”
  • French: “temple du ciel”
  • French: “Temple du ciel”
  • French: “Temple du Ciel”
  • Galician: “Templo do Ceo”
  • Georgian: “ცის ტაძარი”
  • German: “Himmelsaltar”
  • German: “Himmelstempel”
  • Greek: “Ναός του Ουρανού”
  • Hebrew: “מקדש השמיים”
  • Hebrew: “מקדש השמים”
  • Hindi: “स्वर्ग का मंदिर”
  • Hungarian: “Ég temploma”
  • Igbo: “Temple of Heaven”
  • Indonesian: “Tian Tan”
  • Irish: “Teampall Neimhe”
  • Italian: “Tempio del cielo”
  • Italian: “Tempio del Cielo”
  • Italian: “Tempio del paradiso”
  • Japanese: “天地壇”
  • Japanese: “天壇”
  • Japanese: “天壇公園”
  • Javanese: “Tian Tan”
  • Kannada: “ಸ್ವರ್ಗದ ದೇವಾಲಯ”
  • Khmer: “វិហារឋានសួគ៌”
  • Korean: “천단 공원”
  • Korean: “천단”
  • Korean: “천단공원”
  • Latvian: “Debesu templis”
  • Lithuanian: “Dangaus šventykla”
  • Lithuanian: “Rojaus šventykla”
  • Macedonian: “Олтар на небото”
  • Macedonian: “Храм на небото”
  • Malay: “Kuil Syurga”
  • Malayalam: “ടെമ്പിൾ ഓഫ് ഹെവൻ”
  • Malayalam: “സ്വർഗ്ഗ ക്ഷേത്രം”
  • Maltese: “Tempju tal-Ġenna”
  • Manchu: “ᠠᠪᡴᠠᡳ ᠮᡠᡴᡩᡝᡥᡠᠨ”
  • Mongolian: “Тэнгэрийн сүм”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Himmelens tempel”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Himmeltempelet”
  • Norwegian: “Himmelens tempel”
  • Panjabi: “ਸਵਰਗ ਮੰਦਿਰ”
  • Persian: “معبد آسمان”
  • Persian: “معبد اسمان”
  • Persian: “معبد بهشت”
  • Persian: “نیایشگاه آسمان”
  • Polish: “Ołtarz Nieba”
  • Polish: “Świątynia Nieba”
  • Polish: “Świątynia Niebios”
  • Polish: “Tiantan”
  • Polish: “Tien Tan”
  • Portuguese: “Templo do céu, altar sagrado imperial em pequim”
  • Portuguese: “Templo do Céu”
  • Quechua: “Hanaq Pacha Manqus Wasi”
  • Romanian: “Templul Cerului, Bejing”
  • Romanian: “Templul cerului”
  • Romanian: “Templul imperial al cerului”
  • Russian: “Тяньтань”
  • Russian: “Храм Неба”
  • Russian: “Храм Урожая”
  • Serbian: “Небески храм”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Dvorana molitve za dobre žetve”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hram neba”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nebeski hram”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tian Tan”
  • Shan: “ၵျွင်းၵၢင်ႁၢဝ်”
  • Shan: “ဝတ်ႉၵၢင်ႁၢဝ်”
  • Slovak: “Oltár Nebies”
  • Slovenian: “Nebeški tempelj”
  • Spanish: “Templo del Cielo”
  • Swedish: “Himmelens tempel”
  • Swedish: “Himmelsaltaret”
  • Swedish: “Himmelstemplet”
  • Tagalog: “Dambana ng Langit”
  • Tamil: “சுவர்க்கக் கோயில்”
  • Tamil: “சுவர்க்கக் கோவில்”
  • Thai: “หอสักการะฟ้า”
  • Turkish: “Cennet Tapınağı”
  • Ukrainian: “Храм Неба”
  • Urdu: “جنت کا مندر”
  • Uzbek: “Osmon ibodatxonasi”
  • Vietnamese: “Thiên Đàn”
  • Welsh: “Teml y Nefoedd”
  • Western Panjabi: “جنت دا مندر”
  • Wu Chinese: “天坛”
  • Yue Chinese: “天壇”
  • Yue Chinese: “祭天的寺廟”

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