Built in 1975 on the demolished foundations of the second-generation Tamsui Shinto Shrine, this Chinese palatial-style memorial in Tamsui was originally dedicated as the Taipei County Martyrs’ Shrine and renamed when the county was upgraded to a municipality in 2011. It now enshrines 242 names: 221 ROC military and civilian war dead together with the police, firefighters, coast guards, and a single railway worker killed on duty in subsequent decades.
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- Wikipedia in Chinese (中文維基百科)
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- KMT Authoritarian Era Taiwan (國民政府時期)
- Chinese Renaissance Architecture (中國古典式樣新建築)
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