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The temple was originally located on Grant Avenue before moving to its present location on Becket Street in 1996. [2] It is not to be confused with the Tin How Temple two blocks to the south, which is likewise dedicated to Matsu (carrying one of her popular names in Cantonese ), but was founded in 1910 and is the oldest extant Taoist temple in ...
The current building, called The Temple among the Trees Beneath the Clouds (雲林廟), was built in 1874 to replace earlier structures which had been destroyed by fires the year previous. In 1934, much of the material in the building was taken during a robbery.
The Taoist Temple Museum is open for tours once a month. China Alley, where the temple is located, was listed as one of the 11 most endangered historic places in America in 2011 by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. [3] On the evening of May 12, 2021, the building was heavily damaged by fire.
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The palaces of a Taoist temple have two natures: one is the descendant temple (zisun miao), and the other is the jungle temple (conglin miao). The descendant temples are passed down from generation to generation, from master to disciple, and the temple property can be inherited by an exclusive sect. Taoists from other sects can live in the ...
The Tin How Temple (also spelled Tianhou Temple, simplified Chinese: 天后古庙; traditional Chinese: 天后古廟; pinyin: Tiānhòu gǔ miào) is the oldest extant Taoist temple in San Francisco's Chinatown, and one of the oldest still-operating Chinese temples in the United States. [1]
Two notable Taoist temples on Mount Longhu are the temples of Immortal City (仙岩) and Zheng Yi (正一), both founded by Zhang Daoling (张道陵), the Han dynasty founder of the religion. There are more Taoist temples in nearby Shangqing ( 上清 ), one of which is mentioned in the beginning of the famous Chinese traditional novel, Outlaws ...