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Suzhou Confucian Temple (Stone Inscription Museum) 苏州文庙Sūzhōu Wénmiào
National heritage site · Suzhou, Jiangsu
- Time needed
- 1–2 hours
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Suzhou
- Region
- Jiangsu
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- National heritage site
About Suzhou Confucian Temple (Stone Inscription Museum)
Suzhou's Confucian temple and prefectural school, founded in 1035 by the statesman Fan Zhongyan, who joined temple and school in a pattern later copied across China; it now houses the Suzhou Stone Inscription Museum. Its most important exhibits are four Southern Song steles: the Pingjiang Map of 1229, a detailed plan of the city with its walls, canals and bridges and the oldest surviving city plan in China, together with a star chart, a map of the Song empire and a chart of royal succession carved in 1247. The Ming Dacheng Hall of 1474 and a Ming stone gateway survive among buildings mostly rebuilt in 1864.
How to get to Suzhou Confucian Temple (Stone Inscription Museum)
On Renmin Road in the south of Suzhou's old city, across the street from the Canglang Pavilion garden, a short taxi or bus ride from the centre.
Nearby
- Classical Gardens of Suzhou 苏州园林 under 10 km
Whole landscapes of rock, water and pavilion folded into a city block - Zhouzhuang 周庄古镇 30 km
Jiangnan's most famous water town, famed for its Twin Bridges and merchant halls
Also within 20 km: Canglang Pavilion 沧浪亭 (under 10 km), Master of the Nets Garden 网师园 (under 10 km), Pan Gate & Ruiguang Pagoda 盘门 (under 10 km), Twin Pagodas (Luohan Temple) 罗汉院双塔 (under 10 km), Old Campus of Soochow University 东吴大学旧址 (under 10 km), Xuanmiao Temple 玄妙观 (under 10 km).
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