A cylindrical sandstone stele on the north side of Xingshu Monastery (行修寺) in Dakeng Village (大坑村), Gongguan, Miaoli, commemorating the victims of the 1935 Hsinchu-Taichung Earthquake. Erected the same year, its inscription records 262 dead drawn from across the eleven villages of the wider Gongguan township.
Map
Heritage Status
- Historic Building (歷史建築)
Recorded On
Links
- Cultural Assets Bureau (文化部文化資產局)
- Taiwan Cultural Memory Bank (文化部國家文化記憶庫)
Themes
- Japanese Colonial Era Taiwan (台灣日治時代)
- 1935 Hsinchu-Taichung Earthquake (新竹台中地震)
Connections
- Gongguan Xingshu Monastery (公館行修寺)
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Alexander Synaptic
Curator, Spectral Codex
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.