Changhua City West Gate Fude Temple

A shrine to Tudigong (土地公), the Earth God, that once stood beside the west gate of the walled city of Changhua. Its founding date is unrecorded but it predates a renovation of 1781, and it was repaired again after an earthquake in 1848. It survived the dismantling of the city walls in 1920, although part of the temple was demolished and the rest set back when the road through the gate was widened under Japanese colonial rule. Similar temples stand at the three other former gates, among them North Gate Fude Temple, but all have been rebuilt whereas this one retains something of its historic appearance and several antiques.