Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests
The Temple of Heaven is a complex of imperial religious Confucian buildings situated in the southeastern part of central Beijing. 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.
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: imperial complex of religious buildings in Beijing, China
- Also known as: “Imperial temple of heaven”, “Temple of Heaven”, and “Temple of Heaven, Bejing”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include National Natural History Museum of China and Yongdingmen.
National Natural History Museum of China
Museum
Yongdingmen
Photo: Kallgan, Public domain.Beijing Stomatological Hospital (Tiantan Branch), Capital Medical University
Hospital
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tiyuguanlu and Chongwen.
Tiyuguanlu
Suburb
Tiyuguanlu Subdistrict is a southeastern subdistrict of the Dongcheng District, Beijing, China. In 2020 the population here is 31,977. This subdistrict got its name from the Tiyuguan Road within the subdistrict, which in turn was named after the Beijing Gymnasium.
Chongwen
Chongwen, formerly Chongwen District, is an area in Beijing. Its main attraction is the Temple of Heaven.
Qianmen
Suburb
Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests
- Categories: temple, Chinese AAAAA-rated tourist attraction, building, tourism, historic site, and historic building
- Location: Beijing, North China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
39.88225° or 39° 52′ 56″ north
Longitude
116.40662° or 116° 24′ 24″ east
Inception
1420
Height
38 metres (125 feet)
Roof shape
pyramidal
Open location code
8PFRVCJ4+VJ
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests” 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: “北京天坛”
- Chinese: “天坛”
- Chinese: “天坛公园”
- Chinese: “天壇”
- Chinese: “天壇公園”
- Chinese: “祈年殿”
- 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: “Salle des prières pour la récolte”
- 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”
- 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: “Зал молитвы за хороший урожай”
- 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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