Tainan, Taiwan · Tradition
Taoism sacred sites in Tainan, Taiwan
Explore 5 Taoism sacred places in Tainan, Taiwan, with mapped locations and detailed site guides.
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Nankunshen Daitian Temple
Beimen, Tainan City, Tainan, Taiwan
On a sandbar in Beimen, a boat carrying five unmanned statues is said to have drifted ashore centuries ago....
Orthodox Luermen Sheng-Mu Temple
Annan, Tainan City, Tainan, Taiwan
A palace-scale Mazu complex on Tainan's coast, built where tradition holds the sea goddess opened a path through the Luermen sandbar for Koxinga's 1661 fleet....
State Temple of the Martial God
West Central, Tainan City, Tainan, Taiwan
Behind a 66-meter red wall on a Tainan street, incense smoke rises before a general the Qing court once honored with state sacrifice....
Tainan Grand Matsu Temple
West Central, Tainan City, Tainan, Taiwan
A Ming prince's palace became, within a year of his ritual death, the first Mazu temple in Taiwan to receive imperial sanction....
Tiangong Temple, Tainan
West Central, Tainan City, Tainan, Taiwan
A crowded, living Taoist temple in old Tainan built on ground where open-air worship of the Jade Emperor began in 1661....
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