A two-storey wooden zhaitang (齋堂), or fasting hall, built around 1905 in Tainan, affiliated with the Jintong (金幢) school of Zhaijiao (齋教). The hall was originally founded in 1897 at a nearby site under the name Xizhu Hall (西竺堂) before being displaced by Japanese colonial officials’ housing and relocated here. The name changed to account for the similarity in the pronunciation of the two characters. It was registered as a historic building in 2016 but does not appear to be regularly open to the public as it is located within a gated compound set back from the main road.
Map
Heritage Status
- Historic Building (歷史建築)
Links
- Wikipedia in Chinese (中文維基百科)
- Cultural Assets Bureau (文化部文化資產局)
- Taiwan Religious Cultural Map (臺灣宗教文化地圖)
- Center For GIS, Academia Sinica (文化資源地理資訊系統)
- Rook Back (倒車)
Themes
- Temple Culture in Taiwan (台灣的寺廟文化)
- Zhaijiao in Taiwan (台灣齋教)
Connections
- Yuanlin Zengsheng Hall (員林增盛堂)
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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.