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Senju-ji, also known as Takadayama, is the chief Buddhist temple of the Takada branch of Jōdo Shinshū, a Japanese sect of Buddhism. Founded by Shinran in 1226, it was later named an imperial temple . Though the temple's central sacred mountain is located in Tsu city, Mie prefecture, where Senju-ji was founded, today the head temple is in Takata, Ninomiya town, in Tochigi prefecture.The temple is named after the prayer chant senju-nenbutsu, and as a result of the fact that another branch built a temple called Senjō-ji; thus, a similar but different name was chosen. Named an imperial temple in 1477, Senju-ji was later elevated further, to the classification of Monzeki-dera in 1574.Today, the Takada branch has roughly 300,000 followers.