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Shing Wong Temple / Fook Tak Chi, Shau Kei Wan [1877- ]

Submitted by David on Thu, 12/22/2016 - 14:59

Notes from the Chinese Temples Committee website:

The temple was built in 1877 at the junction of Shau Kei Wan Main Street East and Kam Wa Street. It was formerly called the Fook Tak Chi(福德祠) ("Fook Tak" is not the name of a deity. It refers to a place where people pray for blessings and virtues.). After an expansion project by the Chinese Temples Committee in 1974, it was renamed as Shing Wong Temple.

Kwong Fuk Ancestral Hall / Pak Sing Temple [1851- ]

Submitted by Herostratus on Thu, 05/26/2016 - 11:59

I Tsz (meaning a free Ancestral Hall), was built in 1851 on Taipingshan Street to house ancestral tablets of deceased Chinese mainlanders, many of whom had moved to Hong Kong soon after colonisation by the British, to seek a better living. Some had died homeless without relatives to arrange a burial and I Tsz provided a home for commemorative tablets (name plates) to be housed in order that relatives, arriving at a later date, could collect the tablets to take back to the mainland.