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A land god shrine situated on a circular concrete island in the middle of Touliao Pond (頭寮大池). When the reservoir was expanded in 1967, plans to relocate the original shrine were abandoned after repeated unexplained machinery failures; instead, a three-story platform was built to preserve it in place. Worshippers access the temple by boat. On Google Maps it is known simply as Land God in the Water (水中土地公). It is also featured in the book Parasitic Temples as the Island Temple (池中廟).
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Links
- Taiwan Cultural Memory Bank (文化部國家文化記憶庫)
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.