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Circular Mound Altar
Tiantan Road, Dongcheng District, Beijing 100050, ChinaAbout
The RTemple of Heaven has two altars, namely, the Circular Mound Alter of Heaven and the Altar of Prayer for Harvest. The walls make two rectangles, one within the other.Numerologists will be interested in certain patterns revealed in the temple's architecture. The flagstones on the upper terrace are arranged in concentric circles in multiples of nine. Nine was considered the number of yan...more
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