History

Temple of Six Banyan Trees is situated at Liurong Road of Guangzhou city. It was built in the year of 420-479 of the Song dynasty, got rebuilt and rename frequently. The current name of Temple of Six Banyan Trees comes from Sushi, one of the reputed Chinese poets who wrote an inscription when he saw six verdant banyan trees in the temple. The temple was listed in the "Four Buddhist Sites of Guangzhou" with Guangxiao Temple, Hualin Temple and Hoi Tong Monastery. In 1997, the temple was listed as one of the ten tourist attractions of Guangzhou.

Main Attractions:

Flowery Pagoda

In the beginning, it was a quadrilateral wooden pagoda then transformed into the octangular brick-wood pagoda in order to make it stronger. The flowery pagoda with 57.6 meters high is the outstanding building in the temple. It has 9 layers when you look from the outside, while inside there are 17 storeys. You will enjoy the bird's eye view of the whole city from the top. The appearance of the pagoda is so gorgeous dotted with bells hanging on the eaves angle, which looks like a blooming bud and stamen will be the tower top. There are solemn wooden carving and bronze pillars engraved thousand Buddhist figures on the top.

Main Hall

Main Hall is on the west of flowery pagoda, with 14 meters high and covers an area of 300 square meters. There are 3 sets of bronze Buddha statues cast in 1663, each of them standing 6 meters high and weighing 10 tons with kind face and postures, now they are the biggest copper statues in Guangdong province.

Friendship Hall

Friendship Hall is on the left of Main Hall, placing a bronze statue of Sakyamuni sent by the Thai Ministry of Education in 1985, with 2.6 meters high and weighing 1 ton.

Guanyin Temple

Guanyin Temple is on the front right side of Main Hall, placing a bronze statue of Guanyin with 5 meters high and weighing 5 tons.

Other Sites

There are Hall of Heavenly Kings, Maitreya Hall, Weitou Hall, Lecture Hall, Scripture Library, Portrait of Sushi, and more than 10 sets of ancient monuments, etc.