An offshoot of a temple of the same name in Taipei, this three-storey complex on a hillside in Shiding, above National Freeway 5, venerates Yaochi Jinmu (瑤池金母), the Queen Mother of the West. Devotees funded its construction starting in 1994 and it took 13 years to finish. An 11-meter standing statue of Jigong (濟公) was built in front of the temple in 2015, facing the freeway. In 2018 the temple was reported for encroaching on state land; the giant statue was subsequently taken down around 2024.
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- Wikipedia in Chinese (中文維基百科)
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- Temple Culture in Taiwan (台灣的寺廟文化)
- Giant Gods in Taiwan (台灣巨大神像)
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