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If you’ve checked out the Hong Kong Temple Free Photo Archive crowdfunding project at Fringebacker, you will know supporting this campaign is in a great cause. With a high quality and free photo...
View ArticleZoroastrian Prayer Hall Hong Kong
One of the lesser known communities in Hong Kong are the Parsi Zoroastrians. While they number shy of 250 heads, their contributions to Hong Kong have been immense, from the Star Ferry to Hong Kong...
View ArticleA Uniquely Hong Kong Monastery: Ling To Tsz
Ling To Tsz is not your average Buddhist Monastery. We normally think of large scale complexes with towering pagodas and large halls filled with huge statues of the Buddha and bodhisattvas. This is...
View ArticleStanley Mosque: Indian Enforcers to Grade 1 Status
There is a mosque in Hong Kong that nobody knows about. It is not a purposely kept secret, but its accessibility issues keep it under the radar. At the extreme south of Hong Kong island, in the...
View ArticleWho is Tin Hau?
In Hong Kong, you can’t escape the name Tin Hau. Everywhere you go, the goddess follows you. In this land filled with over three hundred temples, more than eighty are dedicated her. What’s her...
View ArticleThe Temple That Feeds: Khalsa Diwan Sikh Temple
Set back away from the real hustle-bustle of Hong Kong’s Wanchai and Causeway Bay districts, a fantastic temple and the heart of a community silently works hard to provide for not only its own members,...
View ArticleThe Guardians of Aberdeen
On the other side of the mountains from Central, the small town area of Aberdeen has grown from its humble origins. Famously the ‘Fragrant Harbour’ from which Hong Kong gets its name, it now has more...
View ArticleFive Mosques in Hong Kong
While there are various Islamic centres for worship and study in Hong Kong, the five mosques that come under the jurisdiction of the Incorporated Trustees of the Islamic Community Fund of Hong Kong...
View ArticleHung Shing in Hong Kong
After Tin Hau, there is another god that is particularly popular in Hong Kong and the south of China. With temples on the mainland and in Macau, worship of Hung Shing is not exclusive to Hong Kong,...
View ArticleHappy Valley Hindu Temple
If you mention Happy Valley to most people in Hong Kong, they immediately equate it to the racecourse. While this had an incredible history as old as Colonial Hong Kong, it is not the only thing of...
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