东直门北中街4号
Part of A Better Guide to Běijīng’s coverage of North and East of the Imperial City

The Russians set up a base in Běijīng nearly two centuries before any other Europeans. The first version of what is now the Dormition of…

东直门北小街针线胡同19号
Part of A Better Guide to Běijīng’s coverage of North and East of the Imperial City

This is a small, functioning three-hall temple rather than a tourist destination, where the attendants who allow you in are obviously devout. There’s…

和平里西街
Part of A Better Guide to Běijīng’s coverage of North and East of the Imperial City

The main altar to see is that at Temple of Heaven (also see Altars for All Seasons), none of the others being as large or spectacular and none having as many…

国子监街3号
Part of A Better Guide to Běijīng’s coverage of North and East of the Imperial City

Access to the tiny courtyard of what the owners claim to be ‘Běijīng’s most distinctive quadrangle’ is free. The space is occupied by a variety of…