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Temple sacred sites in Taiwan
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Baishatun Gongtian Temple, Tongxiao
Tongxiao, Miaoli County, Taiwan
At Gongtian Temple in Baishatun, a centuries-old Mazu statue leaves each spring on foot, and no one — not the bearers, not the temple, not the hundreds of thousands who...
Hsinchu City God Temple
Hsinchu City, Hsinchu City, Taiwan
The Hsinchu City God Temple holds a rank no other temple in Taiwan can claim: elevated by the Qing court in 1891, its City God is the island's only provincial-grade...
Xingang Shuixian Temple
Xingang, Chiayi County, Chiayi County, Taiwan
Xingang Shuixian Temple was built in 1739 by merchants and boatmen of the once-thriving port of Bengang to seek protection from drowning — a devotion so tested by the...
Tainan Confucius Temple
West Central, Tainan City, Tainan, Taiwan
No painted door gods guard this temple's gates. Where most Taiwanese temples overwhelm with color and incense smoke, Tainan Confucius Temple offers shaded courtyards, old...
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....
Miaoli Yuqing Temple
Miaoli City, Miaoli County, Miaoli County, Taiwan
Yuqing Temple keeps a quiet daily devotion to Lord Guan through most of the year, then becomes the ceremonial engine of one of Taiwan's most physically intense folk...
Wufu Temple, Nankan
Luzhu, Taoyuan City, Taoyuan, Taiwan
Founded in 1682 by soldiers loyal to the Ming cause, Wufu Temple has anchored the Nankan community for over three centuries around Xuantán Yuánshuài, god of wealth and...
Bangka Longshan Temple
Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
Founded in 1738 by Fujian settlers in Taipei's oldest quarter, Longshan Temple holds more than a hundred deities beneath one roof....
Lukang Wenwu Temple
Lukang, Changhua County, Changhua County, Taiwan
Lukang Wenwu Temple pairs a shrine to Wenchang Dijun, god of literature, with a martial hall to Guan Gong, deified general of loyalty and strategy — a Qing-era civic...
Lukang Tianhou Temple
Lukang, Changhua County, Changhua County, Taiwan
Lukang Tianhou Temple houses what is claimed to be the sole survivor of six original Mazu statues consecrated at the Meizhou ancestral temple in Fujian — the others...
Donglong Temple
Donggang, Pingtung County, Pingtung County, Taiwan
Every three years, the fishing town of Donggang builds a wooden warship by hand, parades it through streets thick with incense smoke, and burns it on the beach before dawn....
Xihua Temple, Tainan
West Central, Tainan City, Tainan, Taiwan
Xihua Tang is a Qing-dynasty vegetarian hall in Tainan's North District, home to the only surviving branch of the Jinchuang sect's Weng Yongfeng lineage....
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....
Zhushan Zinan Temple
Zhushan, Nantou County, Nantou County, Taiwan
Zinan Temple in Zhushan Township is one of Taiwan's most visited Tudigong shrines, known nationally for a ritual in which worshippers formally borrow small sums of...
Nanyao Temple
Changhua City, Changhua County, Changhua County, Taiwan
Nanyao Temple in Changhua is one of central Taiwan's most important Mazu temples, sustained not by centralized clergy but by ten independent lay associations that rotate...
Lukang Longshan Temple
Lukang, Changhua County, Changhua County, Taiwan
Lukang Longshan Temple holds Guanyin, the bodhisattva of compassion, in a Qing-era complex so architecturally intact that Taiwan's tourism authority calls it the country's...
Keelung City God Temple
Keelung, Keelung, Taiwan
The Keelung City God Temple, founded in 1887, guards Taiwan's northern port. Its City God—the Chenghuang who protects the city and records the deeds of its residents—held...
Lecheng Temple
East District, Taichung City, Taichung, Taiwan
Lecheng Temple in Taichung holds two distinct devotions under one roof: Hanxi Mazu, goddess of the Han Stream, and Yue Lao, the matchmaker deity whose second-floor hall...
Sanxia Zushi Temple
Sanxia, New Taipei City, New Taipei City, Taiwan
The Sanxia Qingshui Zushi Temple honors a deified Song-dynasty monk brought to Taiwan by immigrants from Anxi in Fujian....
Hsing Tian Kong
Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
Hsing Tian Kong is a large, modern Taipei temple devoted to Guan Yu—Lord Guan, deified paragon of loyalty and righteousness, and patron of merchants and professionals....
Jinbanjing Mazu Temple
Nangan, Lienchiang County (Matsu), Matsu Islands, Taiwan
Jinbanjing Mazu Temple in Ren'ai Village, Nangan, retains eastern Fujian architecture largely lost elsewhere on the Matsu Islands....
Penghu Tianhou Temple
Magong, Penghu County, Penghu County, Taiwan
A granite stele found on-site in 1919 proves a Mazu temple stood here by 1604 — the only founding date the evidence can actually support, though tourism copy routinely...
Taitung Tianhou Temple
Taitung City, Taitung County, Taitung County, Taiwan
On Taitung City's busiest commercial street, an ornate temple to Mazu marks eastern Taiwan's only Qing-dynasty officially sanctioned site of her worship....
Chiayi City God Temple
Chiayi City, Chiayi City, Taiwan
Chiayi's City God Temple has stood since 1715 as the city's spiritual magistrate's office, its resident deity the only county-level City God in Taiwan ever elevated by...
Mailiao Gongfan Temple
Mailiao, Yunlin County, Yunlin County, Taiwan
Mailiao Gongfan Temple houses a Mazu statue tradition holds crossed from Meizhou Island in 1685, and a 1930s reconstruction so architecturally unusual — two competing...
Songshan Ciyou Temple
Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
The Songshan Ciyou Temple has anchored the Songshan district of Taipei since the mid-eighteenth century....
Changhua Confucius Temple
Changhua City, Changhua County, Changhua County, Taiwan
No incense haze, no idols, no deity to petition — Changhua Confucius Temple holds a different kind of quiet....
Taipei Xia-Hai City God Temple
Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
In the old merchant quarter of Dadaocheng, the Xia-Hai City God Temple packs more than six hundred deities into a hall of some 152 square meters—the highest density of...
Xiluo Fuxing Temple
Xiluo, Yunlin County, Yunlin County, Taiwan
Xiluo Fuxing Temple houses a black-faced Mazu statue said to have crossed from Meizhou in 1717, whose autumn pilgrimage — Taiwan's only one held outside spring — cannot...
Xingang Fengtian Temple
Xingang, Chiayi County, Chiayi County, Taiwan
Fengtian Temple has hosted the culmination of Taiwan's largest annual Mazu pilgrimage since 1988, when a rupture with rival Beigang Chaotian Temple sent the nine-day Dajia...
Lantian Academy
Nantou City, Nantou County, Nantou County, Taiwan
In Nantou's old quarter, a courtyard building once taught imperial-exam candidates and now hosts their descendants seeking Wenchang Dijun's blessing....
Dalongdong Baoan Temple
Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
Dalongdong Baoan Temple in northern Taipei was built by immigrants from Tong'an in Fujian and dedicated to Baosheng Dadi, the deified physician who guards against illness....
Wanhe Temple
Nantun, Taichung City, Taichung, Taiwan
Wanhe Temple in Taichung's old Nantun district has anchored community worship since the late 17th century, but its most distinctive devotion belongs to Lao'er Ma, a Mazu...
Chih Nan Temple
Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
High on a forested ridge in Taipei's Wenshan District, Chih Nan Temple is dedicated to Lü Dongbin, one of the Eight Immortals of Taoism....
Mt. Bagua Great Buddha
Changhua City, Changhua County, Changhua County, Taiwan
Rendered in dark, unusually solemn concrete rather than gilded gold, the Great Buddha of Mt....
Hsinchu Zhulian Temple
Hsinchu City, Hsinchu City, Taiwan
In Hsinchu's oldest Buddhist-affiliated temple, three Guanyin statues with three separate histories share one altar....
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....
Dajia Jenn Lann Temple
Dajia, Taichung City, Taichung, Taiwan
Each spring, a wooden palanquin carrying Mazu's statue leaves Dajia and does not return for nine days....
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....
Renhai Temple
Zhongli, Taoyuan City, Taoyuan, Taiwan
In the Zhongli district of Taoyuan, this temple was founded in 1826 by the residents of thirteen villages acting in common....
Shuntian Temple, Tuku
Tuku, Yunlin County, Yunlin County, Taiwan
Shuntian Temple has anchored Tuku Township since the Qing dynasty, but its most striking chapter came in 1940, when local administrators registered it as a Japanese...
Beigang Chaotian Temple
Beigang, Yunlin County, Yunlin County, Taiwan
Beigang Chaotian Temple holds the incense smoke of over a million pilgrims a year, its dragon-carved halls the recognized wellspring for more than 300 branch Mazu temples...
Baozhong Yimin Temple
Xinpu, Hsinchu County, Hsinchu County, Taiwan
Baozhong Yimin Temple in Xinpu, Hsinchu County, was built over the mass grave of more than two hundred Hakka militia and civilians who died defending their villages during...
Hsinchu Changhe Temple
Hsinchu City, Hsinchu City, Taiwan
On Hsinchu's old Beimen Street, a Qing-era merchant guild temple still burns incense to the same Mazu statue carried from Meizhou in 1742....
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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