Fongshan Old City Confucian Temple Chongsheng Shrine

The sole surviving structure of the Fengshan Old City Confucian Temple (鳳山舊城孔子廟), originally established by first Fengshan County Magistrate Yang Fangsheng (楊芳聲) in the 1680s outside the north gate of Fengshan Old City. The temple grounds were converted into Jiucheng Public School (舊城公學校) in 1900; most buildings were demolished by 1917 and only this structure survived wartime bombing. Kaohsiung’s first post-war Confucian ceremony was held here in 1947, and the shrine served as the city’s ceremonial venue until the new Zuoying Confucian Temple was completed in 1976. Nine stone tablets from the original temple complex are preserved in a stele forest behind the shrine.