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Laboring People's Cultural Palace

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Laboring People's Cultural Palace
(laodong renmin wenhua gong)

The Laboring People's Cultural Palace was known as the Temple for Ancestral Worship but was renamed in 1950. It is opposite to the Zhongshan Park and is located on the eastern side of Tiananmen Gate抯 rear portion.The palace and the surrounding grounds cover an area of 140,000 sq meters.

First built in 1420 under the Ming emperor Yongle, it served as the imperial temple for ancestral worship in the Ming and Qing dynasties (1368-1911) and now contains a park, a library, a gymnasium and other recreational facilities.