Serving as a three-line interchange hub with Line 2 and Line 7, Jing'an Temple Station is a key node on Shanghai Metro Line 14. It is located at the heart of the business and cultural district around the thousand-year-old Jing'an Temple, with an estimated passenger flow of up to 400,000 people per day.

Extended along Huashan Road and crossing Yan'an Road, the station is a three-storey underground structure with a dimension of 230m (length) × 21m (width) × 26m (depth).