Erdene Zuu

The Erdene Zuu Monastery is probably the earliest surviving Buddhist monastery in . Built in 1585, it is located in , and is now included within the Orkhon Valley Cultural Landscape World Heritage Site.
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  • Museum
  • Description: monastery
  • Also known as
    “Eerdeni zhao”
    “Erdene Zuu Monastery”
    “Guangxian si”
    “Эрдэнэ Зуу”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Kharkhorin Rock.
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, also Kharkarin Rock or Phallic Rock… is situated 2 km southeast of Erdene Zuu.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Karakorum.
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is a city in , about 300 km west of Ulaanbaatar as the crow flies.

Erdene Zuu

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Latitude
47.20162° or 47° 12′ 6″ north
Longitude
102.84315° or 102° 50′ 35″ east
Open location code
8PV46R2V+J7
Open­Street­Map ID
way 397170801
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amenity=­monastery
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historic=­monastery
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landuse=­religious
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tourism=­museum
Wiki­data ID
Q1058965

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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Vietnamese—“Erdene Zuu” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “Monestir d’Erdene Zuu”
  • Chinese: “光显寺”
  • Chinese: “光顯寺”
  • Chinese: “额尔德尼召”
  • Chinese: “额尔德尼昭”
  • Czech: “Erdene Dzú”
  • Czech: “Erdeni dzú”
  • Dutch: “Erdene Zuu”
  • Esperanto: “Erdene Zuu”
  • Estonian: “Erden Dzuu”
  • Estonian: “Erdenedzuu hijd”
  • French: “Erdene Zuu”
  • German: “Erdene Dsu”
  • German: “Erdene Dsuu”
  • German: “Erdene Zuu”
  • German: “Kloster Erdene Dsuu”
  • Hungarian: “Erdene Zuu kolostor”
  • Hungarian: “Erdeni Dzú”
  • Italian: “Erdene Zuu”
  • Japanese: “エルデネ・ゾー”
  • Korean: “에르덴 조 사원”
  • Macedonian: “Ердене Зу манастир”
  • Mongolian: “Эрдэнэ зуу хийд”
  • Mongolian: “Эрдэнэ зуу”
  • Persian: “صومعه اردنه زو”
  • Polish: “Erdene Dzuu”
  • Polish: “Erdenedzuu chijd”
  • Russian: “Эрдэни-Дзу”
  • Russian: “Эрдэнэ-цзу”
  • Slovak: “Erdenedzú”
  • Slovenian: “Samostan Erdene Zuu”
  • Spanish: “Erdene Zuu”
  • Spanish: “Monasterio de Erdene Zuu”
  • Thai: “อารามเอร์เดเนโซ”
  • Tibetan: “ཨེ་རྟེ་ནི་ཇོ་བོ།”
  • Tibetan: “ཨེར་ཏེ་ནི་ཇོ་བོ།”
  • Turkish: “Erdene Zuu Manastırı”
  • Uzbek: “Erdenidzu”
  • Vietnamese: “Tu viện Erdene Zuu”

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Erdene Zuu Monastery Temple and Lavrin Süm.

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