In 1921, the Hall of the Three Saints was added, and thereafter the temple was gradually restored to its present scale. It was almost completely destroyed (only one of the temple's halls was left standing) during the Taiping Rebellion (1850-1864) as part of the Taiping Tian Guo (Heavenly Kingdom of Great Peace) rule, which had, for a time, wrested a large swath of southern China from the then rulers of the Qing Dynasty, Emperors Xianfeng (1850-1861) and Tongzhi (1861-1875 - albeit Empress Dowager Cixi was the defacto ruler during this period), and which was an odd, heterodox Christian movement characterized by what might today be termed Taliban-like intolerant leanings.* Jing An Temple was restored several times and was completely rebuilt during the Qing (CE 1644-1911) Dynasty. The temple was moved to its current location, presumably for reasons of flooding, in the 9th year (CE 1216) of the Jiading (CE 1208-1224) reign of Emperor Ningzong during the Southern Song (CE 960-1279) Dynasty (Suzhou Creek is a tributary to the Huangpu River, which is a large body of water that runs alongside The Bund in Shanghai and which river is known for its propensity for breaching its banks, which explains the high level that now separates The Bund from the river). Jing An Temple ( Jing'an Temple, by Pinyin Chinese convention) was originally built in CE 247 near the stretch of Suzhou Creek that passes through Shanghai proper (a 24 kilometer stretch of Suzhou Creek is located inside Shanghai proper, while the stretch of the creek that runs through greater Shanghai measures 54 kilometers), in the then Kingdom of Wu (CE 229-280) - and thus before Shanghai itself was founded - during the Three Kingdoms (CE 220-280) period (the other two kingdoms being the Wei (CE 220-265) and the Shu (CE 221-263)).
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