Nankunshen Temple

 

Main Door Couplet

The Yu-Chi Stele

Statues of the Five Lords

Inspection Orders of the Five Lords

Stone Censer of the Five Lords

The Kaishan Tablet

Wood Carved Couplets, Ching Shan Temple

The‘Spirits Watch Over the Eastern Seas’Marquee Board

The‘Light Embraces All Four Directions’ Marquee

The ‘Spider Making its Web’ Pavilion

Octagonal Dragon Pillars

‘Pray for Joy and Happiness’

Scenes of Bamboo by Cheng Hsieh

Twin Dragons Gaze Upon the‘Three Stars’– Cut Tile Mosaic

‘Abandoned Lions’ Cut Tile Mosaic

Traditional ‘Palanquin-Style’ Roof Eaves

The Money Wall

Painted Door Gods

Long Hou (Dragon Throat) Well

Bronze Drums

 

 

Traditional ‘Palanquin-Style’ Roof Eaves

Traditional ‘Palanquin-Style’ Roof Eaves


The roof above the ‘Spider Making its Web’ Pavilion in the main worship hall evokes the appearance of a palanquin roof and is an octagonal structure.

It is the structure protecting the intricately designed ceiling below, like the roof of a royal palanquin would keep the elements off his imperial personage. The design is unique, framing the vast sky above. Temple elders say the roof was designed during the early 20th century by a master craftsman from Quanzhou (Fujian Province) who was invited to Taiwan to work on Taipei’s Longshan Temple.

This palanquin-style roof has already become an easily recognized and widely-acclaimed element of the Nankunshen temple complex.


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