Bengang Shuixian Temple

Originally founded in 1739 in the old port settlement of Bengang (笨港), one of the most important trading ports in central-southern Taiwan during the early Qing dynasty. The temple was destroyed when Bengang River (北港溪) flooded and shifted course in 1803, then rebuilt at its present site in what is now Nangang Village (南港村) in 1814, incorporating structural elements salvaged from the original. A rear hall added in 1848 absorbed the deity of Xiétian Temple (協天宮), another Bengang temple lost to the same flood; a stone stele inside records donors by trade name, ship name, and expenditure. Designated a national monument in 1985.