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A small mobile temple built inside a night market vendor cart beneath Bailing Bridge in Shilin, Taipei. It was originally conceived as a way to have a structure by the riverside which would otherwise be illegal. When police come to inspect the site local residents can push the temple elsewhere, hence the nickname “run and gun temple” (打帶跑廟) from Parasitic Temples.
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- 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.