Sky Temple. The team is wooden model

"Temple of Heaven" (Tiantan) is located in the temple-monastic complex in the central Beijing, which includes the only round temple. The complex was built in 1420 during the reign of the Ming dynasty. Initially, the temple was called the "Temple of the sky and the Earth" and this is what explains the unusual shape of the territory of the temple complex: the southern part of the building has the shape of a square, and the northern part of the circle (according to the Chinese tradition, the circle symbolizes the sky, and the square - the forces of the earth) After the construction of a separate "temple of the Earth" in 1530, this temple began to perform the function of worshiping the sky