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Completed in 1936 adjacent to the Tainan Confucian Temple, this is the largest and finest surviving martial arts hall in Taiwan. Built in reinforced concrete mimicking traditional Japanese shrine architecture, the two-story hall originally housed a judo dojo on one side and a kendo dojo on the other, with an archery range between it and the Confucian Temple. It replaced an earlier hall near what is now the Tang De-zhang Memorial Park (湯德章紀念公園). After the war it was repurposed as the auditorium for the adjacent Zhongyi Elementary School (忠義國小), which it remains today. Designated a municipal monument in 1998.
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Heritage Status
- Municipal Monument (直轄市定古蹟)
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Links
- Wikipedia in Chinese (中文維基百科)
- Cultural Assets Bureau (文化部文化資產局)
Themes
- Japanese Colonial Era Taiwan (台灣日治時代)
- Martial Arts Halls in Taiwan (台灣的武德殿)
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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.