Fengxian Temple
Fengxian Temple is a building in Beijing, North China. Fengxian Temple is situated nearby to Clock and Watch Museum, as well as near the city gate Lushun Gate.Photo: Martin Wehrle, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Forbidden City and Forbidden City.
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.
Forbidden City
Museum
Photo: Kallgan, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Palace Museum, also known as the Beijing Palace Museum, is a large national museum complex housed in the Forbidden City at the core of Beijing, China. Forbidden City is situated 200 metres southwest of Fengxian Temple.
Palace of Heavenly Purity
Palace
Photo: N509FZ, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Palace of Heavenly Purity, or Qianqing Palace is a palace in the Forbidden City in Beijing, China. It is the largest of the three halls of the Inner Court, located at the northern end of the Forbidden City. Palace of Heavenly Purity is situated 190 metres west of Fengxian 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
Photo: XtoF, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
Fengxian Temple
- Type: Building
- Also known as: “Hall of Ancestral Worship” and “Hall of Ancestral Worship (Forbidden City)”
- Category: historic site
- Location: Beijing, North China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
39.91824° or 39° 55′ 6″ northLongitude
116.39283° or 116° 23′ 34″ eastOpen location code
8PFRW99V+74OpenStreetMap ID
way 43525082OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
historic=templeWikidata ID
Q15905695
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to German—“Fengxian Temple” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “奉先殿”
- German: “Fengxian dian”
- German: “Fengxiandian”
- German: “Halle der Ahnenverehrung”
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