Introduction to geographical distribution data of religious sites in China

 Religion is a cultural system that connects people and gods or supernatural and divine beings, and is a special social ideology. Religious expressions include rituals, sermons, worship, sacrifices to gods and other forms. As a special cultural phenomenon in the development of human society, religion is an important part of human civilization and profoundly affects people's ideology, living customs and other aspects.

 As a multi-religious country, China’s religious believers mainly believe in Buddhism, Taoism, Islam, Catholicism and Christianity. In the Constitution of the People's Republic of China, freedom of religious belief is a basic right of citizens.

 Religions have relatively fixed venues for religious activities. Religious activity venues are places where religious believers hold religious activities, experience religious life, express religious beliefs, and exchange religious feelings. They are also places where religious clergy practice, study, serve religious believers, and live. The "Religious Affairs Regulations" point out that religious activity venues refer to temples, palaces, mosques, churches and other fixed religious activity places where religious citizens carry out collective religious activities.

 CnOpenData launches data on religious activity sites of Buddhism and Taoism to assist related research.

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Section data:
Geographical distribution data of Taoist and Taoist temples - data volume 8300 rows
Geographic distribution data of Buddhist temples - total data volume 34,000

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Geographical distribution data of Taoist temples

Geographic distribution data of Buddhist temples

Data update frequency

Annual Update

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