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An earth god shrine (福德祠) sitting inside the Dakeng Roundabout (大坑圓環), a traffic circle originally built in 1958 to protect a centuries-old Formosan sweet gum tree (楓香). The shrine reportedly began as three stones stacked beside the tree to represent Tudigong (土地公) and his wife, later rebuilt into a proper temple. When the original tree died it was removed in 2014 and replaced with a century-old bishop wood tree (茄苳) donated by a local landowner. It is featured in the book Parasitic Temples.
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Links
- Wikipedia in Chinese (中文維基百科)
- Center For GIS, Academia Sinica (文化資源地理資訊系統)
Sources
- Lai Po-Wei, Parasitic Temples, Yeren Publishing House, 2017 賴伯威，《寄生之廟：台灣都市夾縫中的街廟觀察，適應社會變遷的常民空間圖鑑》，野人，2017
Themes
- Temple Culture in Taiwan (台灣的寺廟文化)
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I am a web application developer, photojournalist, urban explorer, and history enthusiast passionate about the open web and documenting my experiences on this planet. This project was founded in the early 2010s and has evolved into a sort of personal Wikipedia of places that interest me (and often the photographs I’ve taken there). I’m originally from Toronto, Canada, but spend most of my time residing in Taiwan.