Before the Chinese Communists occupied the Chinese mainland, Tenrikyo dioceses had been set up in Peiping, Tientsin, Tsingtao, Shanghai, Nanking, Amoy, Mongolia and Northeast China.
天理教在我國大陸未淪陷之前，就曾在北平、天津、青島、上海、南京、廈門，以及東北、蒙古等地設立傳教所。