A shrine to the war dead of the Republic of China at Dazhi (大直) in Zhongshan, Taipei, near the Grand Hotel. It occupies the site of the Taiwan Gokoku Shrine, which became a provincial martyrs’ shrine in 1946 and was rebuilt on Chiang Kai-shek’s orders as the present complex, completed in 1969 and modelled on the Hall of Supreme Harmony in the Forbidden City. Its tablets honour more than 400,000 soldiers and civilians who died between the founding of the ROC and the battles for the offshore islands, and the hourly changing of its honour guard has made it a regular stop for foreign visitors.
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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)
- Tourist Attractions in Taiwan (台灣旅遊景點)
- Chinese Renaissance Architecture (中國古典式樣新建築)
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- Taiwan Grand Shrine (臺灣神宮)
- Taiwan Gokoku Shrine (台灣護國神社)
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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.