This article presents the data gathered through the project The Temples of Peking : Epigraphy and Oral Sources: The Social History of an Imperial Capital, jointly undertaken by the École française d’Extrême-Orient and Peking Normal University. The program aims at making a complete survey of the temples of the inner city of Peking and at studying their history and social functions. The main sources are : Over five hundred inscriptions preserved in rubbings ; documentation found in imperial and republican archives, which provide information on the real estate and moveable property owned by the religious foundations and their clerics ; and the results of interviews and fieldwork, which made it possible to localize the 1100 temples surveyed to this day.