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The Hong Kong China Temple is on a 0.3-acre site, with a total area of 21,744 square feet (2,020.1 m 2). It is located at the heart of the Asia continent, in the ...
There are several Hung Shing Temples in Hong Kong, including 6 on Lantau Island [2] and one only in urban Kowloon. [3] The table provides a partial list of these temples. Hung Shing Festivals (洪聖誕) are celebrated on the 13th day of the 2nd month in Chinese calendar at the Hung Shing Temples in Ap Lei Chau, [4] Tai Kok Tsui, [3] Cheung Chau, [4] Sha Lo Wan [5] and Kau Sai
Wong Tai Sin Temple (Chinese: 黃大仙祠) is a well known shrine and tourist attraction in Hong Kong. [1] It is dedicated to Wong Tai Sin, or the Great Immortal Wong. [2] The 18,000 m 2 (190,000 sq ft) Taoist temple is famed for the many prayers answered: "What you request is what you get" (有求必應) via a practice called kau chim.
A Man Mo temple, or Man Mo Miu, is a temple dedicated to the Chinese folk god of literature, Man Tai (文帝), or Man Cheong (文昌), and the martial god Mo Tai (武帝), or Kwan Tai (關帝). The two deities were commonly patronized by scholars and students seeking progress in their study or ranking in the civil examinations in the Ming and ...
Lo Pan Temple is a temple located in Kennedy Town, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong dedicated to Lo Pan (魯班; also transliterated as "Lu Ban"), the patron saint of Chinese builders and contractors. First built in 1884, it is now classified as a Grade I historic building , and is also part of the Central and Western Heritage Trail -The Western ...
Tao Fong Shan Christian Centre (Chinese: 道風山基督教叢林) is situated at Tao Fong Shan, Sha Tin, in Hong Kong. The Centre was founded in 1930 by the Norwegian missionary Karl Ludvig Reichelt (1877–1952). [3] Reichelt was sent to Hunan province in China in 1904.
Hong Kong is the ninth largest trading entity in exports and eighth largest in imports (2021), [232] [233] trading more goods in value than its gross domestic product. [232] [233] Over half of its cargo throughput consists of transshipments (goods travelling through Hong Kong). Products from mainland China account for about 40% of that traffic ...
A temple of Confucius or Confucian temple is a temple for the veneration of Confucius and the sages and philosophers of Confucianism in Chinese folk religion and other East Asian religions. They were formerly the site of the administration of the imperial examination in China, Korea, Japan and Vietnam and often housed schools and other studying ...