Gangshan Shoutian Temple

The local religious center, with a history of 300 years, also has the characteristics of the Japanese occupation period. The Virgin Mary in the main hall is shaped with various materials

Traditional palaces and temples, worship the Virgin Mary, majestic, loving, obedient after fifty years, and show more divine power after being built. Put your hands together in front of Guanyin Bodhisattva and the Three Treasures Buddha. .

The Okayama Mazu Temple, where the incense is flourishing, has a lantern festival every year during the Lunar New Year. This year, the theme of bamboo art is bamboo art.

⭐Five stars for the solemn and majestic faith center Shoutian Temple is a well-known traditional religious center in Okayama Adjacent to Okayama Park, in the center of the city The incense is at its peak, and the annual sacrificial activities continue Here becomes the common memory of Okayama people In the square in front of the temple Echoing Okayama, it is also an internationally renowned screw production center. There are three statues of gods made up of large and small screws all over the body worth seeing ?The above information comes from the official website of Okayama Shoutian Temple About Okayama Shouten Temple During the development of Chinese settlements, temples were mostly located in the center of the settlement, and Shoutian Temple was the center of belief in Okayama. The original temple site of Shoutian Temple is not in our current location, but moved from the urban area of ​​Okayama, which must involve the development process of the urban area of ​​Okayama. When the original name of Okayama was "Gan Zhenlin Street", the government force was insufficient and bandits were rampant. In the 51st year of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty (1712 AD), the spirit was separated from Tainan's Datianhou Palace, which is the homology of "Meizhou Ma". It has been more than 300 years ago. A temple house. In May of the 41st year of Qianlong (AD 1776), the temple was rebuilt at the fork of Weiren Road and Pinghe Road in Gangshan District, the original site. In front of the temple, there is a stone tablet "Building the Shore". In the third year of Jiaqing (1798 AD), Huang Xieji and Wu Longxing raised eight houses, and in the fourth year of Jiaqing (1799 AD), "A Gongdian Gongdou" was established. Mazu has always been a goddess of grace and grace, and it is the luck of the people. In the summer of the 19th year of the Republic of China, the heavy rain flooded, the river broke the embankment, and the territory was full of Zeguo. , the scale is beginning to take shape. The Japanese occupied Taiwan, and the Japanese royal family "Essentials of the East China Sea" came to Taiwan to promote Buddhism, and traditional religions were suppressed. In the 26th year of the Republic of China, the Japanese demolished the building of the Palace on the grounds of eliminating flooding, opening up the city and renovating the streets, and the ancient temple with more than two hundred years of history was destroyed. In the 34th year of the Republic of China, Taiwan was restored, and local gentry Yang Fu, Wu Ruitai, Wang Chamou, Dai Liangqing, Zhuang Nan and others quickly formed a reconstruction committee. The current site of Shoutianli Park Road was formerly the original site of a Japanese shrine. Sanchuan Hall was built in 1952 and renovated in 1968. The Okayama Fudezheng Temple was originally built on the left side of the entrance to the park. It was demolished more than 80 years ago to clean up the A Gongdian River. The statue of Fudezheng was temporarily enshrined in the Mazu Temple. The committee started to prepare for the construction and was completed in 1976. On March 12, 1982, the Virgin was instructed to build the Houlong Hall (now known as the Jade Emperor Hall) and rebuild the "Back Hall" (now known as the Guanyin Hall), on January 31, 1991 and May 1997, respectively. It was completed on the 21st, and before the construction of the Dragon Temple started in October 1983, the entire Fude Temple was moved to the left and to the back. In 1998, the activity center of this palace was built in the west wing, and in 100 years, the administrative building was built in the east wing. Since then, the gods and Buddhas have been diversified and all-in-one, forming a comprehensive offering of worship, with a new appearance, a magnificent and magnificent temple appearance, and the incense is flourishing, fulfilling all wishes.

Okayama Shoutian Temple is dedicated to the loving Mazu. It originated from the honorable Tainan Sacrificial Ceremony Datianhou Temple in the 51st year of Kangxi Period / 1712 AD. There are also gods enshrined in Guanyin Bodhisattva and the Jade Emperor. The Fude Temple at the northernmost end of the building complex is said to be quite effective. The most important cultural relics are the stone monument donated to the embankment in the 41st year of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty, the stone chiseled public bucket during the Jiaqing period, the hand washing bucket, fire bag, and two mikoshi in the shrine. There is no imperial road here! The original site was at the intersection of Pinghe Road and Weiren. It was repaired many times. During the Japanese occupation period, it was demolished in 1937 due to floods, street planning, and the reorganization of the temple. After the Japanese left Taiwan, they rebuilt the Sanchuan Hall and the main hall on the current site, which is the shrine. They were installed in 1949. It has been repaired and added many times for nearly 80 years, and the incense has become more and more vigorous. Buildings. Okayama Park in the square in front of the temple, when it was renovated in 2013, was restored to the large torii gate of the shrine. The main hall where Mazu sits maintains the traditional South China architectural style. The roof is a single eaves Xieshan, inlaid with lion faces to block the evil spirits, Xishi swallow tail ridge, the main ridge An Shuanglong protects the seven-story pagoda, and the Kui ridge eaves corner curly grass. The inner eaves are exposed to the beams and do not make caisson ceilings. The main beam town is protected by gossip and multicolored double dragons. The painted three tubes and five melons are decorated with wooden elegant lattice windows. The stone lions and dragon pillars in front of the door exude the brilliance of the years.