Tainan Zhengjue Temple

Date Captured

February 20th, 2015 at 07:00 UTC

Camera

NIKON D5200

Lens

AF-S DX VR Zoom-Nikkor 18-105mm f/3.5-5.6G ED

Aperture

ƒ / 7.1

Shutter Speed

1/200 sec

Focal Length

18.0 mm

ISO

250

Exposure Value

13.3 EV

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An impressive Buddhist temple on the north edge of Tainan City near the Chaitougang Creek (柴頭港溪) bridge. The site originally held a Qing dynasty Fude Temple (福德祠) along with a shrine to Chen Yonghua (陳永華). In 1956 the nun Daomiao (道妙師), discovering a stele recording the site’s Buddhist origins, established a Buddhist hall within the existing shrine. The main hall was completed in 1962 and the temple rebuilt to its current scale in 2000.