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Tin Hau Temple in Repulse Bay with Tin Hau and Kwun Yum statues.

Declared Grade II historic building in 2010.

"Probably built in 1786... administrative center of Shap Pat Heung [before] the 20th century. ..Ying Yung Tsz(英勇祠) is at the left side of the Temple...The adjacent Wing On She (永安社) was a memorial hall and served as a study hall since 1884 [until] 1962...."

Source: http://www.aab.gov.hk/form/AAB_brief_info_en.pdf

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.

The temple is managed by the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals (http://www.tungwahcsd.org/en/our-services/traditional-services/temple/K…)

The current building was completed in 1993, according to Discover Hong Kong:

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.