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Luo Star Tower
Luoxing Tower stands tall and upright o-n the top of the luoxing mountain which is 21 km away from fuzhou urban.In 1985, it was listed as the provincial level cultural relic preservation organ. Luoxing mountain is originally an island in the middle of the river, it is also called Moxin island. The seven-layer tower is octagonal and made of stone. It stands 31.5 m high at the Majiang River port. It has a legend that it is built by Liuqiliang who comes from Guangdong and beautiful. In order to ... View Detail
Hosts Hualin Temple
Hualin Temple has more than 1000 years of history ( it was firstly built in 964 A.D.). It is considered as a unique architecture. According to some Chinese and Japanese experts, the temple exerted great influence to the Japanese architecture at the end of the 12th century. So, the temple is also seen as an important symbol of Sino-Japanese cultural communication. The main hall is especially unique. It is 15.5 meters high, covering 574 square meters. The whole hall is supported by 18 columns ... View Detail
Fixed light pagoda (White Pagoda)
Dingguang Pagoda is located at the foot of the western part of Mount Yu. As it was painted white, it is known as the White Pagoda. According to an inscription on a stone tablet there, when ground was broken to lay the foundation for the pagoda, a glittering bead was unearthed. Hence the name Dingguang (Light Keeping) Pagoda. The pagoda was built in 904 in the Tang Dynasty. However, except for its stone base, no part of the original pagoda remains. The original pagoda was built of brick and had ... View Detail
Canon Hall
The Cangjing Palace is located in Xichan Temple of Fuzhou and the distance is approximately 1.5 kilometers away from the center of Fuzhou. There are many sutras awarded by the previous emperors since the Song Dynasty in the palace.In addition of the temple's sutras, there are altogether 20,346 sutras in it. There are also 557 sutras found in the temple that were written with blood. They are rare cimelia of the country. As such, the Tibetan palace is known as the "ancient precious ... View Detail
Tuas Temple (Goddess of Mercy House)
It is located in Yu Mountain, and is also Goddess of Mercy Pavilion. But its name had been changed as Wanshou Pavilion that consecrating a stele called "Wishing you a Long Life". In the second year of Qianlong Emperor, it was changed to consecrate the Avalokitesvara of South China Sea. Behide the hall, there was an inscription that narrating the story Avalokitesvara became an official and became a girl from a boy. When Fuzhou was recovered in the Revolution of 1911, the Revolutionary ... View Detail
Main Hall
Mahavira Hall is the core of Yongquan Temple. There are three Sakyamuni statues called "Buddhas of Three Periods" in the middle of the hall, that means the past, now and the future. They are shaped in Ming Dynasty. The modelling of the statues are fine and smooth, showing grandfatherly eyebrow and kind eyes.Two copper little fairy children of more than 1m high are standing in the hall. Their head with double overhand knot and their cheek with dimple, and each of them is holding a flat ... View Detail
Jinshan Temple
Because it is a temple with a pagoda located on an island, it resembles the famous Jin Shan (Gold Mountain) Temple in Jiangsu Province discussed above and the Chinese since ancient times have popularly referred to it as "Little Jin Shan".The temple was originally built in the year 1131 AD of the Song Dynasty. The Jinshan Pagoda is eight-sided and has seven stories. It is made of granite and is about 7 meters in height. The small temple complex includes the "Guanyin Pavilion" ... View Detail
Tao terra tower
The Thousand Buddha Potter Pagoda was built at the gate of Yongquan Temple on Gushan Mountain, which is situated in the east suburb of Fuzhou City, Fujian Province.It was originally built in Longrui Temple and moved to the present site in 1972 due to the original temple collapsed. Two pagodas stand at both sides of it, with Grandeur Misfortune Thousand Buddha Pagoda in the east and Puxian Misfortune Thousand Buddha Pagoda in the west. The Pagoda was fired in the fifth year (1082) of the Yuanfeng ... View Detail
Arrow Church St.
Shengjian Hall is located on the left side of the Court of Law. There are three sago cycases of thousands years for visitors to view and admire. Three sago cycases are very thick that one was transplanted from Xichan Temple in 1972. The nonlocal sago cycases are rare to bloom, and the other sago cycases are the same. But these three sago cycases are special that bloom every year. Because there were many abbots living in the Shengjian Hall from of old, it was also called Abbot's Quarters. In ... View Detail