The "tangse" was destroyed in 1900 by foreign powers in the aftermath of the Boxer Uprising as part of reprisals for the two-month siege of the international Legation Quarter. A new shrine was rebuilt inside the palace in December 1901. Its former site became part of the expanded Italian legation. Historian Mark Elliott notes that in today's Beijing, the old "tangse" would have been located on East Chang'an Avenue, "directly opposite the 'modern' wing of the Beijing Hotel."