Hanging Temple

The Hanging Temple, also Hanging Monastery or Xuankong Temple is a temple built into a cliff 75-metre 246 ft above the ground near Mount Heng in Hunyuan County, Datong City, Shanxi Province, China. The nearest city is Datong, 64.23-kilometer 39.91 mi toward the northwest. Alongside the Yungang Grottoes, the Hanging Temple is one of the principle vacation spots and verifiable destinations in the Datong region. Assembled over 1,500 years prior, this sanctuary is striking not just for its area on a sheer slope yet additionally in light of the fact that it is the main existing sanctuary with the blend of three Chinese conventional religions: Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism.

The structure is kept set up with oak crossbeams fitted into gaps etched into the bluffs. The fundamental steady structure is covered up inside the bedrock. The religious community is situated in the little gully bowl, and the body of the building swings from the center of the bluff under the conspicuous summit, shielding the sanctuary from rain disintegration and daylight. Combined with the repair of the administrations, the shading tattoo in the sanctuary is moderately very much protected. On December 2010, it was recorded in the Time magazine as one of the world's best ten most odd unsafe structures.