One of the many temples of Wanhua, Taipei. This one is unusual mainly for its location beneath a highway overpass (環河南路橋) next to the flood wall lining the riverside park. It is featured in the book Parasitic Temples as the Under-Bridge Temple (橋下廟) and was inadvertently the inspiration for the entire project.
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Sources
- 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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Alexander Synaptic
Curator, Spectral Codex
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.