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　　Buddhist culture is an important part of Nanjing. The development of the temples showed the following characteristics: various reasons of building temples, pagoda is necessary, named after intellectual monks. Lay Buddhist Yang Renju established Jinling Buddhist Sutras Engraving Studio, circulated more than millions of classical scriptures. Today, Nanjing became the base of undertaking the construction of large Buddha statues (copper-technique).

　　The Islamism was spreaded into Nanjing before Ming Dynasty, the earliest Fengfu Road Mosque was established in Song Dynasty. The existing oldest Jingjue Mosque was bestowed by the Ming Emperor under the petition of Zheng He when he returned from his sixth voyage. The Western Church was Spreaded in late 15th century. Now the oldest church is Catholic Cathedral on Shigu Road which was built in 1870, the Protestant St. Paul’s church is on South Taiping Road which was built in 1913, each carries different style.