Additionally, the temple became a Shimogyo town society meeting place for the people of Shimogyo as well as a rendezvous point for troops heading out to fight in the various conflicts that afflicted Kyoto such as the peasant uprising and Tenbun Hokke War.
また、京都に乱入する土一揆や天文法華の乱などでは出陣する軍勢の集合場所となったり、あるいは下京町組代表の集会所になったりしている。