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
type: Site