Ancestral shrine

Ancestral shrine - temples dedicated to deified ancestors in East Asian culture. Article “Ancestral shrine” in English Wikipedia has 48.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 10 references and 10 sections.

This article has the best quality in Chinese Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

In June 2025 the article “Ancestral shrine” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 1 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Ancestral shrine”, its content was written by 48 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 120 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 368 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1258 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2219 in May 2023
• Global: #16294 in May 2023

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #271026 in March 2022
• Global: #337174 in March 2022

There are 10 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Chinese (zh) 祠堂		54.808
2	English (en) Ancestral shrine		48.9346
3	Thai (th) หอบรรพบุรุษ		32.1692
4	French (fr) Sanctuaire des ancêtres		31.7291
5	Norwegian (no) Citang		24.866
6	Italian (it) Tempio ancestrale		15.5494
7	Korean (ko) 사당		14.8326
8	Japanese (ja) 祠堂		9.6148
9	Dutch (nl) Citang		6.9405
10	Min Nan (zhminnan) Sû-tông		0.2965

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Ancestral shrine" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ancestral shrine		198 985
2	Chinese (zh) 祠堂		134 004
3	Korean (ko) 사당		32 701
4	Dutch (nl) Citang		16 916
5	Thai (th) หอบรรพบุรุษ		6 302
6	Norwegian (no) Citang		2 656
7	French (fr) Sanctuaire des ancêtres		1 621
8	Italian (it) Tempio ancestrale		1 546
9	Japanese (ja) 祠堂		888
10	Min Nan (zhminnan) Sû-tông		401

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Ancestral shrine" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ancestral shrine		1 519
2	Chinese (zh) 祠堂		1 029
3	Korean (ko) 사당		289
4	Japanese (ja) 祠堂		111
5	Thai (th) หอบรรพบุรุษ		59
6	French (fr) Sanctuaire des ancêtres		57
7	Dutch (nl) Citang		31
8	Italian (it) Tempio ancestrale		21
9	Min Nan (zhminnan) Sû-tông		12
10	Norwegian (no) Citang		9

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Ancestral shrine" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Ancestral shrine		48
2	Chinese (zh) 祠堂		19
3	Dutch (nl) Citang		15
4	Korean (ko) 사당		14
5	Norwegian (no) Citang		9
6	French (fr) Sanctuaire des ancêtres		5
7	Thai (th) หอบรรพบุรุษ		4
8	Italian (it) Tempio ancestrale		3
9	Japanese (ja) 祠堂		2
10	Min Nan (zhminnan) Sû-tông		1

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Ancestral shrine" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Ancestral shrine		1
2	French (fr) Sanctuaire des ancêtres		0
3	Italian (it) Tempio ancestrale		0
4	Japanese (ja) 祠堂		0
5	Korean (ko) 사당		0
6	Dutch (nl) Citang		0
7	Norwegian (no) Citang		0
8	Thai (th) หอบรรพบุรุษ		0
9	Chinese (zh) 祠堂		0
10	Min Nan (zhminnan) Sû-tông		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Ancestral shrine" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Chinese (zh) 祠堂		575
2	English (en) Ancestral shrine		368
3	Korean (ko) 사당		138
4	Dutch (nl) Citang		62
5	French (fr) Sanctuaire des ancêtres		45
6	Italian (it) Tempio ancestrale		19
7	Japanese (ja) 祠堂		19
8	Norwegian (no) Citang		19
9	Thai (th) หอบรรพบุรุษ		13
10	Min Nan (zhminnan) Sû-tông		0

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#	Language	Value
en	English Ancestral shrine
fr	French Sanctuaire des ancêtres
it	Italian Tempio ancestrale
ja	Japanese 祠堂
ko	Korean 사당
nl	Dutch Citang
no	Norwegian Citang
th	Thai หอบรรพบุรุษ
zh	Chinese 祠堂
zhminnan	Min Nan Sû-tông

Best Rank

English: #271026 03.2022

Global: #337174 03.2022

Best Rank

English: #2219 05.2023

Global: #16294 05.2023

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