Kaiyuan Temple
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Title
Kaiyuan Temple
Description
Kaiyuan Temple is located in west Street, Licheng District, Quanzhou City, Fujian Province in China. It is an important cultural relic and historic site in southeast China and the largest Buddhist temple in Fujian Province. The temple was founded in the early Tang Dynasty two years (686), the initial name lotus Taoist, kaiyuan twenty-sixth year (738) renamed Kaiyuan Temple. The main existing temples, built in Ming and Qing dynasties, are 260 meters long from north to south and 300 meters wide from east to west, covering an area of 78,000 square meters. In 1982, Kaiyuan Temple was listed as the second batch of national key cultural relics protection units.
Source
wordlheritage2022
Date
A.D.686
Contributor
wz41@st-andrews.ac.uk
Type
Site
Identifier
554
Date Submitted
10/05/2022
Extent
cm x cm x cm
Spatial Coverage
current,24.914112,118.5831703;
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Europeana Data Provider
Kaiyuan Temple
Europeana Type
TEXT
Site Item Type Metadata
Institutional nature
Building
Prim Media
1015
Status
public
Condition
1
Contact
wz41@st-andrews.ac.uk
Citation
“Kaiyuan Temple,” STAGE, accessed December 13, 2025, https://stage.openvirtualworlds.org/omeka/items/show/1017.
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