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[[Image:Sanjusangendo.jpg|right|thumb|320px|The Sanjûsangendô.]]

[[Image:Sanjusangendo.jpg|right|thumb|320px|The Sanjûsangendô]][[File:Sanjusangendo-interior.jpg|right|thumb|320px|The interior of the hall, in a photograph c. 1890s]]

*''Built: [[1164]], [[Taira no Kiyomori]]''

*''Built: [[1164]], [[Taira no Kiyomori]]''

*''Popular Name'': 三十三間堂 ''(san juu san gen dou)''

*''Popular Name'': 三十三間堂 ''(san juu san gen dou)''

*''Formal Name'': 蓮華王院本堂 ''(renge ou in hondou)''

*''Formal Name'': 蓮華王院本堂 ''(renge ou in hondou)''

The Sanjûsangendô (lit. "Hall of 33 Bays") is a Buddhist temple of the [[Tendai sect]] located in Kyoto. It was built by [[Taira no Kiyomori]] for [[emperor Go-Shirakawa|Former Emperor Go-Shirakawa]] and finished  in [[1164]] . It is thirty-three bays (''ken'') long (about 120 meters) and four bays deep, the width of "bays," i.e. the space between the pillars in a building, being standardized in traditional Japanese architecture at a distance equal to roughly 1.8 meters.

The Sanjûsangendô (lit. "Hall of 33 Bays") is a Buddhist temple of the [[Tendai sect]] located in Kyoto. It was built by [[Taira no Kiyomori]] for [[emperor Go-Shirakawa|Former Emperor Go-Shirakawa]] and finished  in [[1164]] . It is thirty-three bays (''ken'') long (about 120 meters) and four bays deep, the width of "bays," i.e. the space between the pillars in a building, being standardized in traditional Japanese architecture at a distance equal to roughly 1.8 meters.