Sacred Places
15 places found
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TaoismChe Kung Miu
, People's Republic of China
A temple in Tai Wai, Sha Tin, Hong Kong, dedicated to Che Kung — a Southern Song dynasty general honoured as a protective deity in Chinese folk religion.
temple
IslamDongsi Mosque
, People's Republic of China
A historic Hui Muslim mosque in the Dongsi neighbourhood of Beijing's Dongcheng District, China, with a layered history reaching back to the Yuan dynasty and notable Ming-era expansions.
mosque
TaoismGrand Temple of Mount Heng
, People's Republic of China
The Grand Temple of Mount Heng (Nanyue Damiao) stands at the foot of Mount Heng in Hunan, China, the largest temple complex on this sacred southern mountain and a long-standing centre of Taoist, Buddhist, and Confucian devotion.
temple
TaoismLouguantai
, People's Republic of China
A Taoist temple in Tayu village in Zhouzhi county of Shaanxi province, China, traditionally honoured as the very place where Laozi composed the Tao Te Ching.
temple
BuddhismPagoda of Chengtian Temple
, People's Republic of China
An eleven-storeyed brick pagoda in Yinchuan, Ningxia, China, built on the site of a Western Xia Buddhist temple and standing as the tallest pagoda in the region.
monastery
BuddhismPagoda of Cishou Temple
, People's Republic of China
A sixteenth-century stone and brick Chinese pagoda in the Buddhist Cishou Temple at Balizhuang, Haidian District, Beijing, originally named the Yong'an Wanshou Pagoda.
monastery
ChristianitySaint Ignatius Cathedral
, People's Republic of China
The Roman Catholic cathedral of the Latin Church Diocese of Shanghai in China, located in the Xujiahui district and dedicated to Saint Ignatius of Loyola.
church
BuddhismSongyue Pagoda
, People's Republic of China
The oldest surviving brick pagoda in China, built in 523 CE on Mount Song in Henan and inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List as part of the Historic Monuments of Dengfeng.
monastery
TaoismTai Wong Temple, Cheung Shing Street
, People's Republic of China
A historic Chinese folk temple on Cheung Shing Street in Yuen Long Kau Hui, Hong Kong, dedicated to the Tai Wong, the protective city god of the old market district.
temple
BuddhismWanbu Huayanjing Pagoda
, People's Republic of China
The eleventh-century Liao-era White Pagoda of Hohhot in Inner Mongolia, an octagonal seven-storey brick tower built to enshrine ten thousand copies of the Avatamsaka Sutra.
monastery
TaoismWhite Cloud Temple
, People's Republic of China
An ancient Quanzhen Taoist temple and monastery in Beijing, known as 'The First Temple under Heaven' and now the seat of the Chinese Taoist Association.
temple
TaoismWong Tai Sin Temple
, People's Republic of China
A name shared by several Taoist temples in Hong Kong, Guangzhou, and Markham — each dedicated to the deity Wong Tai Sin and the practice of healing and divination.
temple