There were some temples of the Jodo Shinshu (the True Pure Land Sect of Buddhism) in the Echizen go-go, and the Gensho-ji Temple in Najio was also a temple of the Jodo Shinshu Sect.
越前五郷には浄土真宗派の寺院があり、名塩の源照寺なども真宗派であった。