Shanghai Jing'an Temple Photo Gallery

Jing'an Temple was once the city's richest Buddhist monastery, with a history going back to the 3rd century, followed by a relocation to the current site during the Song Dynasty in the 13th century. Now surrounded by modern shopping malls and skyscrapers, the temple was stripped during the Cultural Revolution and turned into a plastics factory before fire destroyed it in 1972. It was restored back to its original use in 1983. The current structure is built mostly with Burmese teak and hosts a Guanyin statue carved from a thousand year-old camphor tree. .

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