Fenglin Temple

Shanxi


Fenglin Temple, located around 5km northwest of town, was built by a monk in the Ming dynasty. The original ancestral pagoda was damaged during the Cultural Revolution and in its place now stands a seven-storey funerary pagoda. Many of the halls here were built in the 1990s.


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