Jinbaoli Cihu Temple

The main Mazu temple of Jinshan, also known as the Jinshan Great Temple (金山大廟), sitting at the eastern terminus of Jinbaoli Old Street (金包里老街). Its origins can be traced to a Mazu statue discovered by fishermen in a sea cave at Yeliu in the early Jiaqing era, around 1800. The present temple was first built in 1809, destroyed by a tsunami following the 1867 Keelung earthquake, and thereafter rebuilt into something resembling its current form. Interior beams, couplets, and plaques dating from the 1870s onward have been preserved through successive repairs. It was registered as a historic building in 2019, the same year its annual procession returning the “second Mazu” (二媽) to the Yeliu cave was recognized for its heritage value.