Big Buddha Temple

The Dafo Temple is a in , , . Located in Yuexiu District, Dafo Temple is a grand temple with a history of more than one thousand years and was built by Emperor Liu Yan in the Southern Han dynasty.
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  • Type: Buddhist temple
  • Description: Buddhist temple in Canton
  • Also known as: “Dafo Temple”
  • Address: 惠新中街 21, 广州市, 越秀区, 广东省

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Archaeological Site of the Wooden Watergate of Nanyue Kingdom and Beijing Road Pedestrian Street.

Archaeological site
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Photo: Mengyeyue, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is situated 130 metres northeast of Big Buddha Temple.

Mosque
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The is the main of , located in the Yuexiu District, in the of . Rebuilt many times over its history, some historical texts claim that it was first built in the 7th century, but modern scholarship places its foundation at a later period during the Tang or Song dynasties. is situated 1 km west of Big Buddha Temple.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Guangzhou and Zhuguang.

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is the capital of Guangdong Province in southern China. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 18.7 million, making it China's fourth-largest city after Chongqing, Shanghai and Beijing.

Suburb
is a subdistrict of the Yuexiu District in Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, southern China.

Suburb
is a subdistrict of the Yuexiu District in Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, southern China.

Big Buddha Temple

Latitude
23.12505° or 23° 7′ 30″ north
Longitude
113.2627° or 113° 15′ 46″ east
Open location code
7PMM47G7+23
Open­Street­Map ID
way 299671419
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­place_of_worship
Open­Street­Map feature
landuse=­religious
Wiki­data ID
Q2778100
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In Other Languages

From Burmese to Yue Chinese—“Big Buddha Temple” goes by many names.
  • Burmese: “ဒဖိုကျောင်းတော် (ကွမ်ကျိုး)”
  • Burmese: “ဒဖိုကျောင်းတော်”
  • Chinese: “大佛古寺”
  • Chinese: “大佛寺”
  • Dutch: “Grote Boeddhatempel van Guangzhou”
  • Dutch: “Grote Boeddhatempel van Kanton”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “معبد دافو”
  • Indonesian: “Kuil Dafo (Guangzhou)”
  • Indonesian: “Kuil Dafo”
  • Japanese: “大佛寺 (広州市)”
  • Japanese: “大佛寺”
  • Russian: “Буддийский храм”
  • Yue Chinese: “大佛古寺”
  • Yue Chinese: “大佛寺”

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