It's one of the four head temples of the Jodo sect in Kyoto and the twenty-second fudasho (temple in which amulets are collected) of Honen Shonin's 25 Sacred Sites with historic associations.
京都における浄土宗四ヶ寺本山のひとつであり、法然上人二十五霊跡第22番札所でもある。