Nianhua Temple faces north and faces south, with a construction area of ??6432 square meters and 184 houses divided into three roads, each with five courtyards. The buildings on the middle road from south to north include: screen wall, 24.5 meters long, 1 meter thick, made of stone; three mountain gates, with brackets under the eaves, stone-carved arches, and the inscription "Edict to Build Nianhua Temple" on the forehead. There are eight-character walls on both sides of the door. , there are bell and drum towers on the left and right of the door, which have been demolished in later generations.
There are three Tianwang Halls on the front, with brackets under the eaves; the Main Hall is five rooms wide, and has since been demolished. There is a platform in front of the hall, and under the platform there are two Ming Dynasty stone tablets from 1581. One is the monument "Inscription of the Thousand Buddhas Temple for Protecting the Country and Repaying Kindness" written by Changsha Yang Shoulu, and the other is the "Inscription of the Treasure Statues of the New Thousand Buddha Temple for Protecting the Country and Repaying Kindness" written by Qiao Yingchun of Anyang. The two Ming steles are both from Zhenyang Lin Chaoshu Dan. In addition, there is a stele of "Imperial System of Nianhua Temple" by Emperor Yongzheng of the Qing Dynasty in 1734.
In the Main Hall, there are 18 bronze Arhat statues and twenty-four heavenly statues donated by the King of Korea, which are as shiny as lacquer. Among them, twenty-four of the celestial statues are solemn and majestic. Because the magical instruments they held were accidentally lost while crossing the sea during transportation, although they were later repaired, the craftsmanship was inferior to the original ones. The outer forehead of the main hall is said "Jue'an Cihang", and the forehead inside the hall is said "Pu Ming Bao Mirror", both of which were written by Emperor Yongzheng.
In addition, there are 5 east and west auxiliary halls of Nianhua Temple; 5 Jialan Halls, 16 connecting halls on both sides; 5 Sutra Buildings, with short corridors with ridges, ash tubes and tiles on both sides. , 3 rooms each in the east and west annex buildings.
There are six-story halls on the East Road: 3 first-story halls; 5 second-story halls; 9 third-story halls with stone carvings inlaid in the walls; 5 fourth-story halls; and 5 fifth-story halls. There are wing rooms on both sides; there are five six-story halls and five wing rooms on both sides. There are stone carvings on the back gables of the two rooms in the east wing.
There are four-story halls on the West Road: 3 first-floor halls and 1 hanging flower door; 5 second-story halls; 5 third-story halls; and the fourth-story ancestral hall is a "concave"-shaped building,** *In Room 17, there was originally a square pavilion with four pointed corners in front of the ancestral hall, named "Suxin Pavilion", which was later demolished.