Quan Zhou/History

Best History in Quan Zhou

• Kaiyuan Temple

  A Tang-dynasty Buddhist temple founded in 686, home to twin five-storey stone pagodas that are the tallest surviving pair from the Song dynasty in China.

• Qingjing Mosque

  The oldest mosque still standing in China, founded in 1009, with Arab-influenced stone architecture unlike any other religious building in Quanzhou.

• Luoyang Bridge

  A stone sea-crossing bridge built in 1053, engineered with an oyster-shell foundation technique and later documented by Marco Polo.