Five Dragons Temple
(Redirected from Guangrenwang Temple)
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| File:广仁王庙正面.jpg The Five Dragons Temple | |
| Religion | |
| Affiliation | Daoist |
| Province | Shanxi |
| Location | |
| Location | Ruicheng |
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| Architecture | |
| Completed | 833 Tang dynasty |
The Five Dragons Temple (simplified Chinese: 五龙庙; traditional Chinese: 五龍庙; pinyin: Wǔ Lóng Miào) is a Taoist temple in Ruicheng, Shanxi Province, China. It is also known as King Guangren's Temple (广仁王庙).
The temple contains China's second oldest dated timber building, the Main Hall. It was built in 833 and is of the Tang dynasty. It measures five bays across and has a hip-gable roof.[1]
Notes
[edit | edit source]- ^ Steinhardt (1997), 70.
References
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- Taoist temples in China
- Major National Historical and Cultural Sites in Shanxi
- Timber framed buildings in China
- Tang dynasty architecture
- 9th-century establishments in China
- Ruicheng County
- 833 establishments
- Religious buildings and structures completed in the 830s
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