Great Bao'en Temple Heritage Park 大报恩寺遗址公园Dà Bào'ēn Sì Yízhǐ Gōngyuán

About Great Bao'en Temple Heritage Park

The site of the Great Bao'en Temple, rebuilt by the Yongle Emperor from 1412 on the site of the older Changgan Temple, whose nine-storey, 78 m pagoda faced with white porcelain and glazed tiles was famous in Europe as the Porcelain Tower of Nanjing until it was blown up in 1856 during the Taiping war. A heritage park opened here in December 2015 with a light modern tower of steel and art glass over the excavated pagoda base, deliberately not a copy of the original, and glass walkways above the Song and Ming foundations. Displays cover the crypt of the Northern Song Changgan Temple, where an iron casket holding the Seven-Treasure Ashoka stupa was found in 2008, and a Ming imperial stele of 1428 survives on the site.

How to get to Great Bao'en Temple Heritage Park

At 1 Yuhua Road just outside Zhonghua Gate in Qinhuai District, about 500 m on foot from Zhonghuamen station on Metro Line 1.

Nearby

• City Wall of Nanjing 南京城墙 under 10 km
  The Ming capital's brick ramparts, anchored by the vast fortress of Zhonghua Gate
• Fuzimiao and the Qinhuai River 夫子庙—秦淮风光带 under 10 km
  Nanjing's lantern-lit Confucius Temple quarter, beside painted boats on the Qinhuai
• Purple Mountain & Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum 南京钟山风景区 under 10 km
  A forested mountain on Nanjing's edge, crowned by a blue-roofed hilltop tomb

Also within 20 km: Jinling Arsenal (Chenguang 1865 Creative Park) 金陵兵工厂旧址 (under 10 km), Yuhuatai (Rain Flower Terrace) 雨花台 (under 10 km), Zhan Garden 瞻园 (under 10 km), Former Residence of Gan Xi 甘熙故居 (under 10 km), Nanjing Science and Technology Museum 南京科技馆 (under 10 km), Chaotian Palace 朝天宫 (under 10 km).

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