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Taipei Xia-Hai City God Temple (台北霞海城隍廟)
A temple people come back to · Taipei, Taiwan
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The experience
A temple of just 46 ping — about 152 square metres — wedged into a shophouse frontage at No. 61 Dihua Street, founded in 1859 and tended by the same family ever since. Its 600-odd deity statues give it the highest statue density of any temple in Taiwan, and it was listed as a national historic monument in 1985. Best known for Yue Lao, the matchmaking god, which has turned a wholesale-district shrine into a pilgrimage stop for the unmarried.
The smallest temple in Dadaocheng, and the one with the longest queue of people asking for a spouse.
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Where it is
Taipei, Taiwan · Datong (Dadaocheng). Coordinates from the listing we sourced it from.
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