The Great Hall of the People is a state building on the west side of Tiananmen Square in Beijing, used for the legislative and ceremonial functions of the Chinese state. Completed in September 1959 from a design by Zhao Dongri and Shen Qi, with Zhang Bo as chief architect, it hosts the annual sessions of the National People's Congress each March and the National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party every five years. The building covers about 171,801 square meters, measures 356 meters long and 206.5 meters wide, and rises 46.5 meters at its center; it is arranged in three sections, a central block of auditoriums and halls, a northern block for banquets and guests, and a southern block of National People's Congress offices. Its Great Auditorium seats 10,000 people beneath a ceiling centered on a large red star amid a pattern suggesting waves, and its State Banquet Hall can seat 5,000 diners at once.
Facts
Building TypeSourced to the subject's own accountBuilding of public administration 3 LocationWest of Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China 1 Completed Year Classification
Standing Status Building Type
Building Type (category)Government / Parliament Building 2 Connections
Has Building Type
Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: China, located there.
Sources
1. Great Hall of the People - Wikipedia
Introduction, first sentence
situated to the west of Tiananmen Square in Beijing
Infobox, opened_date
1959 9
Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
The Great Hall of the People is a state building on the west side of Tiananmen Square in Beijing, used for the legislative and ceremonial functions of the Chinese state. Completed in September 1959 from a design by Zhao Dongri and Shen Qi, with Zhang Bo as chief architect, it hosts the annual sessions of the National People's Congress each March and the National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party every five years. The building covers about 171,801 square meters, measures 356 meters long and 206.5 meters wide, and rises 46.5 meters at its center; it is arranged in three sections, a central block of auditoriums and halls, a northern block for banquets and guests, and a southern block of National People's Congress offices. Its Great Auditorium seats 10,000 people beneath a ceiling centered on a large red star amid a pattern suggesting waves, and its State Banquet Hall can seat 5,000 diners at once.
View the Source2. Wikidata: Great Hall of the People
- Wikidata Q72891, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
- Wikidata Q72891, P571 claim (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926)
View the Source3. Great Hall of the People (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata instance-of (P31) statement (Building of public administration)Quote, Wikidata instance-of (P31) statement (Building of public administration)
Wikidata item Q72891, instance of (P31): building of public administration
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