Category Archives: Temples

Snapshot – Taiwan: Longshan Temple in Taipei (main gate)

31 Saturday Dec 2016

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Taipei2016Dec: Monks, Nuns & Buddhist Monasteries.

Longshan Temple (艋舺龍山寺) is one of the largest and oldest temples in Taiwan. It is also the most well-known.

Built in 1738 by settlers from Fujian, China, the temple is also one of the “Big 3” temples in the historic Wanhua district of Taipei.

One of the other 2 being 天后宫, which we’d visited earlier.

Directly in front of the temple is a busy road, so it took some time to get a shot with the road clear of taxis and relatively clear of tourists – with a monk and a nun in the frame to boot.

Photo taken with Canon EOS 5DsR with Canon EF 11-24mm f/4L USM lens.

Snapshot – Taiwan: Longshan Temple devotees

28 Wednesday Dec 2016

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Taipei2016Dec: The main altar of Longshan Buddhist Temple (艋舺龍山寺), just inside of the inner gate.

Devotees pray from here before proceeding forward to put their joss-sticks in various incense cauldrons.

Photo taken with Canon EOS 5DsR with Canon EF 11-24mm f/4L USM lens.

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Snapshot – Taiwan: Longshan Temple in Taipei (inner entrance)

27 Tuesday Dec 2016

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Taipei2016Dec: Mengjia Longshan Buddhist Temple (艋舺龍山寺), one of the largest and oldest temples in Taiwan – also the most well-known – built in 1738 by settlers from Fujian, China.

This is the inner gate just inside of the external gate.

The temple is one of the “Big 3” temples in the historic Wanhua district of Taipei. (one of the other 2 being 天后宫, which I’d visited earlier.)

Photo taken with Canon EOS 5DsR with Canon EF 11-24mm f/4L USM lens.

#万华 #龙山寺

Snapshot – Taiwan: Tian Hou Temple in Ximending, Taipei

12 Monday Dec 2016

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Taipei2016Dec: Devotees praying in front of the main altar of Taipei Tian Hou temple in the heart of 西门町.

We actually stumbled upon this temple on our way to dinner.

Turned out it is one of the three great temples of the Bangka (Wanhua) District of 台北.

This 天后宫 is 270 years old although the current building was completed in 1959 after a fire.

The temple is devoted to 妈祖 and other deities.

Photo taken with Canon EOS 5DsR with Canon EF 70-300mm F/4-5.6 IS USM lens.