开元寺系全国重点文物保护单位,全国首批4A级旅游景点。地处市区西街,始建于唐武则天垂拱二年(686年),原名“莲花寺”,唐开元二十六年(738年)唐玄宗下令全国各州建一座开元寺,遂改为现名。全寺占地面积7.8万平方米,规模宏大,构筑壮观,景色优美,曾与洛阳白马寺、杭州灵隐寺、北京广济寺齐名。主要有大雄宝殿、甘露戒坛、东西塔等建筑。耸立在拜庭两侧广场中,相距约200米的八角五层楼阁式仿木结构石塔为全国四大名塔之一。东塔名“镇国塔”,通高48.24米;西塔名“仁寿塔”,通高 44.06米,两塔为我国古代石构建筑的瑰宝,系历史文化名城泉州的标志。
The Kaiyuan Temple is a national key safekeeping cultural relic and a national 4A grade tourist spot in the first batch published by the central government. It lies on the West Street ,began to be built in the 2nd year of Chuigong in the reign of Empress Wuzetian of the Tang dynasty(686 A.D.),originally named “The Lotus Temple”. In the 26th year of Kaiyuan(738A.D) Emperor Xuanzong decreed that every prefecture in the whole country build a kaiyuan Temple, therefore the temple got its present name. The temple covers an area of 78,000m2grand in scales. The major structures in it are the Great Buddhist Hall, the Sweet Dew Altar of Precepts and the Twin Pagodas. The Twin Pagodas (the East and West Pagodas)stand on the grounds of both sides of the praying yard at a distance of 200m. The East Pagoda also called “Zhenguo Pagoda” 48.24 m high; the West pagoda another name“Renshou Pagoda”44.06m high. The Twin Pagodas are gems of ancient Chinese stone architecture and has become the landmark of the historic city Quanzhou.
开放时间:8:00--17:30
Open Time: 8:00--17:30






The Kaiyuan Temple is a national key safekeeping cultural relic and a national 4A grade tourist spot in the first batch published by the central government. It lies on the West Street ,began to be built in the 2nd year of Chuigong in the reign of Empress Wuzetian of the Tang dynasty(686 A.D.),originally named “The Lotus Temple”. In the 26th year of Kaiyuan(738A.D) Emperor Xuanzong decreed that every prefecture in the whole country build a kaiyuan Temple, therefore the temple got its present name. The temple covers an area of 78,000m2grand in scales. The major structures in it are the Great Buddhist Hall, the Sweet Dew Altar of Precepts and the Twin Pagodas. The Twin Pagodas (the East and West Pagodas)stand on the grounds of both sides of the praying yard at a distance of 200m. The East Pagoda also called “Zhenguo Pagoda” 48.24 m high; the West pagoda another name“Renshou Pagoda”44.06m high. The Twin Pagodas are gems of ancient Chinese stone architecture and has become the landmark of the historic city Quanzhou.
开放时间:8:00--17:30
Open Time: 8:00--17:30
















