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).
Five Dragons Temple | |
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Religion | |
Affiliation | Daoist |
Province | Shanxi |
Location | |
Location | Ruicheng |
Architecture | |
Completed | 833 Tang dynasty |
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- ^ Steinhardt (1997), 70.
References
edit- Steinhardt, Nancy Shatzman. Liao Architecture. Honolulu: University of Hawaii, 1997. ISBN 0-8248-1843-1
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