Tin Hau temples in Hong Kong

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Tin Hau Temple, Tin Hau, Causeway Bay

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Tin Hau temple, Yung Shue Tau, Yau Ma Tei

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The Tin Hau Temple, Joss House Bay

The following is an incomplete list of the over 100 Tin Hau Temples (at least partially) dedicated to Tin Hau (Mazu) in Hong Kong. They include:

• Tin Hau temple, located at 10 Tin Hau Temple Road, Causeway Bay, east of Victoria Park, in Eastern District, on Hong Kong Island. It is a declared monument. The temple has given its name to the MTR station serving it (Island Line), and subsequently to the neighboring area of Tin Hau.
• The Tin Hau temple in Yau Ma Tei is also famous in Hong Kong. The public square, Yung Shue Tau before it is surrounded by the popular Temple Street night market.
• The Tin Hau Temple at Joss House Bay is considered the most sacred. Built in 1266, it is the oldest and the largest Tin Hau Temple in Hong Kong. It is a Grade I historic building.

Festivals

Two temples have a marine parade to celebrate the Tin Hau Festival (天后誕; Tiānhòudàn): Tin Hau Temple on Leung Shuen Wan (High Island) and Tin Hau Temple on Tap Mun, which has it once every ten years.

The celebration at Tin Hau Temple, Joss House Bay is attended annually by upwards of 40,000 to 50,000 people. Another large celebration takes place at the Tai Shu Ha temple in Yuen Long District.

List by district

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Note 1: Unless otherwise noted, Tin Hau is the main deity of the temples listed below.
Note 2: A territory-wide grade reassessment of historic buildings is ongoing. The grades listed in the table are based on this update (10 September 2013). The temples with no status listed in the table below are not graded and do not appear in the list of historic buildings considered for grading.
Note 3: While most probably incomplete, this list is tentatively exhaustive.

Eastern District

Location	Notes	Status	References	Photographs
No. 10, Tin Hau Temple Road, Causeway Bay	See detailed article	Declared	[1] [2] [3]	200px
No. 53, Shau Kei Wan Main Street East, Shau Kei Wan	The original temple, built in 1845, was destroyed by a typhoon in 1872. A new temple was erected in-situ in 1873. Originally situated on a slope with its front part facing the sea. Renovated in 1876, 1902, 1920, 1948 and 2005. Managed by the Chinese Temples Committee. The interior of the temple can be explored with Google Street View.	Grade II	[4].doc	200px
A Kung Ngam Village Road, A Kung Ngam, Shau Kei Wan	Yuk Wong Kung Din (玉皇宮殿) or Yuk Wong Bo Din (玉皇寶殿). Dedicated to the Jade Emperor. Partly dedicated to Tin Hau: altar on the left side of the main altar. Managed by the Chinese Temples Committee. The interior of the temple can be explored with Google Street View.	Not listed	[5]
Fei Tsui Road, Chai Wan	Chai Wan Tin Hau Temple (柴灣天后廟)	Not listed		200px
Lok Kang Po, Siu Sai Wan, Chai Wan (approximate location)	Lok Kang Po Tin Hau Temple (樂耕埔天后廟). At the current location since 1967.	Not listed		200px

Islands District

Location	Notes	Status	References	Photographs
Near Pak She San Tsuen, Cheung Chau Wan, Cheung Chau	Pak She Tin Hau Temple (北社天后廟). Located 100m northwest of the Pak Tai Temple. Situated within the boundary of the Chung Shak Hei Home for the Aged. The temple was probably built around 1767.	Grade II	[6]	200px
Chung Hing Street (Tai Shek Hau), Cheung Chau	Tai Shek Hau Tin Hau Temple (大石口天后廟). Built some time before the 4th year of the Tongzhi reign (1865) of the Qing Dynasty.	Grade II	[7]	200px
Sai Wan, Cheung Chau	Sai Wan Tin Hau Temple (西灣天后廟). Located west of Sai Wan (Western Bay), on the southwestern tip of the island. Built some time before 1929.	Grade III	[8]
North of Morning Beach aka. Nam Tam Wan (南氹灣), Cheung Chau	Nam Tam Wan Tin Hau Temple (南氹灣天后廟).	Not listed	[9]	200px
Pak She Street, Tung Wan, Cheung Chau	Yuk Hui Temple aka. Pak Tai Temple. Partly dedicated to Tin Hau: altar on the right side of the main altar. Managed by the Chinese Temples Committee. The interior of the temple can be explored with Google Street View.	Grade I	[10] [11]	200px
Fan Lau Miu Wan, Fan Lau, Lantau Island	Built during the early Qing Dynasty. Rebuilt in 1820. Repaired in 1820, 1928, 1976.	Grade III	[12]
Yi O (二澳), Lantau Island (Hoi San Temple)	Listed with the note "no information" in "Distribution of temples on Lantau Island as recorded in 1979", in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch. A Hoi San Temple (海神古廟) can be found in Yi O.	Not listed	Hoi San Temple
San Tsuen, Tai O	Yim Tin Tin Hau Temple (鹽田天后古廟). Built in 1644, in the early Qing Period, repaired in 1838, 1892, 1895, 1946 and 1972.	Not listed	[13]	200px
Kat Hing Back Street, Tai O	Adjacent to Kwan Ti temple (right side). Built in 1772.	Grade III	[14] [15]	200px
Sha Lo Wan, Lantau Island	Built in 1919. Located on the left of the Ba Kong Temple, which is dedicated to Hung Shing. A wall is connecting the two temples at the front façade. (Viewed from the front, the Tin Hau Temple is on the right)	No grade	picture [16] [17]	200px
Chek Lap Kok New Village, Wong Lung Hang Road, Tung Chung, Lantau Island	Built in 1823 at the north east of Chek Lap Kok. The entire temple was built of granite quarried on the island. Repaired in 1978. Dismantled in 1991 because of the construction of the new airport, and rebuilt in 1994 at its present location.	Grade II	[18] [19]
Tai Pak (大白), Lantau Island Unknown location, possibly at Discovery Bay	Listed with the note "no information" in "Distribution of temples on Lantau Island as recorded in 1979", in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch.	Not listed
Nim Shue Wan, Lantau Island	Built in 1920. The statue of Tin Hau was moved to Peng Chau by the villagers during the Japanese Occupation.	No grade	picturepicture [20]
Luk Tei Tong, Mui Wo, Lantau Island		Not listed		200px
Chung Hau, Shap Long, Chi Ma Wan, Lantau Island	It was rebuilt in 1951.	Not listed	picture
Chi Ma Wan Road (along Lantau Trail Stage 12), Ham Tin Kau Tsuen, Ham Tin, Pui O, Lantau Island	Built in the Ming Dynasty, rebuilt in 1798 and repaired in 1947, 1974 and 1995.	Not listed	[21] [22]	200px
Tong Fuk, Lantau Island (approximate location)		Not listed		200px
No. 1A Yung Shue Wan Main Street, Yung Shue Wan, Lamma Island	Built some time before the 2nd year of Guangxu reign (1876) of the Qing Dynasty. An uncommon feature of the temple is that it is guarded by two Western lions. They replaced the original Chinese lions which had been damaged in the 1960s.	Grade III	[23] [24] [25] [26] [27]	200px
O Tsai, Yung Shue Wan, Lamma Island		Not listed		200px
Sok Kwu Wan, Lamma Island	Probably built between 1826 and 1868.	No grade	[28] [29] [30]	200px
Luk Chau Village, Lamma Island	Believed to be built in the late Qing Dynasty (1644-1911).	No grade	[31] [32]	200px
Nos. 69A & 69B, Wing On Street, Peng Chau	Probably built in 1792. Managed by the Chinese Temples Committee. The interior of the temple can be explored with Google Street View.	Grade II	[33] [34]	200px
Po Toi Island	Renovated in 1893.	No grade	[35] [36] [37] [38]	200px
Tai A Chau, Soko Islands	Built in 1828. The Tong Fuk village committee contributed to its renovation in 2000.	Not listed	[39]
Siu A Chau, Soko Islands		Not listed	[40] picture
Hei Ling Chau 1) Former 2) Current temple:	There are two Tin Hau temples on the island. One was built in 1925 and was converted into a store room. The current temple was built in 1985.	Not listed	Former[41]
Shek Kwu Chau		Not listed	[42] [43]

Kowloon City District

Location	Notes	Status	References	Photographs
No. 49 Ha Heung Road, To Kwa Wan	Built in 1885. The temple also houses the statue of Lung Mo, which was transferred here in 1964, when the temple at Hoi Sham Island was demolished following land reclamation. Managed by the Chinese Temples Committee. The interior of the temple can be explored with Google Street View.	Grade III	[44]
1/F, 40 Pak Tai Street, To Kwa Wan	Wah Kwong Tak Yan Tong (華光得因堂). Located in a residential and commercial building. Partly dedicated to Tin Hau.	Not listed	[45]

Kwai Tsing District

Location	Notes	Status	References	Photographs
Chung Mei Lo Uk Village, Tsing Yi Island	Tin Hau Festival in Tsing Yi lasts from 1st to 5th day of the 4th lunar month each year. The temple was originally located near Tsing Yi Tong. Upon reclamation of Tsing Yi, it was moved to Ha Ko Tan (下高灘), near today's Chung Mei Lo Uk Village.	Not listed	picture	200px
Near Ha Kwai Chung Tsuen, Kwai Chung. Located across Kwai Chung Road from Kwai Fong Terrace.	Built prior to 1828, the original temple was relocated to the present site in 1966 to make way for the port reclamation in Kwai Chung.	No grade	[46]	200px
Opposite to Chui Kwai House, Kwai Chung Estate, Tai Wo Hau		Not listed	[47]	200px
Near Yan Kwai House, Kwai Chung Estate, Tai Wo Hau	Kwai Chung Fu Tak Temple (葵涌福德堂) Partly dedicated to Tin Hau.	Not listed	[48]

Kwun Tong District

Location	Notes	Status	References	Photographs
Ma Wan Tsuen, Lei Yue Mun (Kowloon)	First built in 1753.	Grade III	[49]	200px
Cha Kwo Ling Road, Cha Kwo Ling	Initially built in Cha Kwo Ling Village during the Qing Dynasty, it was moved to Cha Kwo Ling Road in 1941, and was under maintenance and repair in 1947. Opened officially in 1948. Managed by the Chinese Temples Committee. The interior of the temple can be explored with Google Street View.	Grade III	[50] [51]	200px
Off Lei Yue Mun Road, Kwun Tong	Tin Hau Temple and Sam Shan Kwok Wong Temple (三山國王古廟).	Not listed	[52] [53] [54]
Po Lam Road, near the junction with Sau Mau Ping Road, Sau Mau Ping. Near Po Tat Estate.	Hoi Kwok Tin Hau Shing Mo Temple (海國天后聖母廟). The opening ceremony took place on 24 November 2012.	Not listed		200px
Sau Mau Ping Road, Sau Mau Ping.	Part of a complex built in 1964 without government approval. Demolished in 2008 to make way for the new On Tat Estate.	Not listed	picture picture [55] [56] [57] [58]

North District

Location	Notes	Status	References	Photographs
Lung Yeuk Tau, Fanling	Located along the Lung Yeuk Tau Heritage Trail, next to Tang Chung Ling Ancestral Hall.	Declared	[59] [60] [61] [62] [63]	200px
Sai Ho (西澳), Kat O Island	Built in 1763.	Grade III	picture [64]	200px
No. 72 Ping Che, Ta Kwu Ling	Ping Yuen Tin Hau Temple (平源天后廟). Probably built in 1756. The temple is flanked by two buildings: the Ping Yuen Community Hall (right) and the Sing Ping She Memorial Hall (left).	Grade III	[65] [66]	200px
Ng Uk Tsuen (吳屋村), Ta Kwu Ling		Not listed	picture
Muk Wu Tsuen, Ta Kwu Ling	Built around 1912-1913.	Grade III		200px
Ma Mei Ha, Ta Kwu Ling (approximate location)		Not listed		200px
Tsung Yuen Ha (松園下), Ta Kwu Ling (unconfirmed location)		Not listed	picture
No. 41 Hung Kiu San Tsuen, Sheung Shui	Rebuilt in 1961.	No grade		200px
Wai Loi Tsuen, Sheung Shui Wai, Sheung Shui Item #221 on map: [67]	Completely renovated to modern structure.	Not listed		200px
Ping Kong, Sheung Shui	Within a walled village. The temple is featured in Jackie Chan's 1983 film Project A.	Not listed	[68]	200px
Yim Liu Ha, Sha Tau Kok		Not listed	[69] [70]	200px
Wu Shek Kok, Sha Tau Kok		Not listed	[71]	200px
Luk Keng Road, Nam Chung	Nam Chung Tin Hau Temple (南涌天后宮).	Not listed	[72]	200px

Sai Kung District

Location	Notes	Status	References	Photographs
Joss House Bay (大廟灣; Tai Miu Wan)	See detailed article Managed by the Chinese Temples Committee. The interior of the temple can be explored with Google Street View.	Grade I	[73] [74]	200px
Tin Chau Road, Tin Ha Wan Village (田下灣村), Hang Hau	Built around 1840.	Grade III	[75] [76]	200px
Leung Shuen Wan Chau (High Island), Sai Kung	Probably built in 1741. It is located in the original coastal site and is feng shui-oriented.	Grade III	[77] [78] [79]	200px
Po Tung Road, Sai Kung Town	Tin Hau Temple and Hip Tin Temple. Built in the 1910s-1920s.	Grade II	[80]
Wong Keng Tei, Pak Tam Chung, Sai Kung Peninsula		Not listed		200px
Tai Mong Tsai, Sai Kung Peninsula		Not listed		200px
Pak Kong, Sai Kung Peninsula	Built before 1872. The temple is located on a feng shui marking the eastern edge of the residential area of the village.	Not listed	[81]	200px
Nam Wai		Not listed	[82]	200px
South Ninepin Island (Ninepin Group)		Not listed	picture [83] Note: the small Tin Hau temple is located at the top of the hill at the centre of the picture =>	200px
Nam Tong Village (南塘中村), Tung Lung Chau	Shui Yuet Kung (水月宮), a Hung Shing Temple. Partly dedicated to Tin Hau.	No Grade	[84]

Sham Shui Po District

Location	Notes	Status	References	Photographs
No.180-184 Yee Kuk Street, at the corner of Kweilin Street, Sham Shui Po	Erected in 1901. Managed by the Chinese Temples Committee. The interior of the temple can be explored with Google Street View.	Grade III	[85]

Southern District

Location	Notes	Status	References	Photographs
No. 182 Aberdeen Main Road, Aberdeen	Built in 1851. Managed by the Chinese Temples Committee. The interior of the temple can be explored with Google Street View.	Grade III	[86] [87]	200px
No. 333 Shek O Village, Shek O	Believed to be built before 1891.	Grade III	[88]
No. 219 Lan Nai Wan Village, Shek O	Lin Hok Sin Koon (蓮鶴仙觀). Partly dedicated to Tin Hau.	Not listed	[89] [90] [91]
Hok Tsui (鶴咀) (unconfirmed location)		Not listed	picture
Stanley Plaza, Stanley Main Street, Stanley	Built in 1767.	No grade	[92]	200px
Middle Island		Not listed

Tai Po District

Location	Notes	Status	References	Photographs
No. 39 Ting Kok Road, Tai Po Kau Hui	Built before 1691. On the left of the Tin Hau Temple is Hip Tin Temple dedicated to Kwan Tai. On its right is Tam Sin Temple where Tam Sin is revered.	Grade III	[93] [94]	200px
Nos. 52-53 Tsz Tong Tsuen, Tai Hang, Tai Po	Adjacent to Man Tai Temple. Built in 1774.	No grade	[95]	200px
Fong Ma Po, Lam Tsuen	Near the Lam Tsuen Wishing Trees. Believed to be built in 1768 or around 1771. The temple was damaged by Typhoon Dot in 1964 and by a fire in 1965. It was extensively renovated in 1967.	Grade II	[96] [97]	200px
Shuen Wan area of Plover Cove, next to Kei Shan Kok between Wai Ha and Ha Tei Ha.	One of the three temples of the Sam Kung Temples complex (三宮廟). The other ones are a Hip Tin Temple, dedicated to Kwan Tai (Guan Yu), and a Temple of Confucius. The Sam Kung Temples complex had been destroyed by a typhoon in 1936 and was reconstructed in 2009.	Not listed	[98]	200px
Po Sam Pai (布心排) (unconfirmed location)		Not listed	picture
Ha Wai, Tap Mun Chau	The temple complex comprises three temples in two buildings: the first building is a Tin Hau Temple, built in 1737, to which an annex was later added, housing a Kwan Tai Temple. On its left, Shui Yuet Kung, built in 1788, is dedicated to Kwun Yam and the Earth God.	Grade II	[99]	200px
Sha Tau, Ping Chau	Built in 1765. Two other deities are worshipped at its side altars: Hung Shing and Tai Sui.	Grade III
Ko Lau Wan, North Sai Kung Peninsula		Not listed	picture	200px

Tsuen Wan District

Location	Notes	Status	References	Photographs
Wai Tsuen Road, Tsuen Wan Town. Situated at the east of Luk Yeung Sun Chuen, next to Block J.	Built in 1721 during the reign of Kangxi (1661–1722) of the Qing Dynasty.	Grade II	[100]	200px
Yau Kam Tau Village, Po Fung Road, Tsuen Wan	Yau Kam Tau Village was established in 1864. It was resited to the present location in 1984, following the development of the MTR. The temple is a single storey stone house. It lies by the side of the Yau Kam Tau Village Rural Committee, on a terrace built by boulders.	Not listed		200px
Nos. 56-58 Castle Peak Road, Tsing Lung Tau	Built before 1889.	No grade
No. 38 Ma Wan Town, Ma Wan	It was renovated in 1860.	Grade III	[101]
Northern beach, Ma Wan	Recently rebuilt. Said to have been originally built by the local pirate Cheung Po Tsai.	Not listed	[102]	200px

Tuen Mun District

Location	Notes	Status	References	Photographs
Tsing Chuen Wai, Lam Tei		Not listed
Fuk Hang Tsuen, Fuk Hang Tsuen Path, Lam Tei		Not listed	[103] [104] [105]	200px
Tin Hau Road, Tuen Mun	See detailed article Called the "Hau Kok Tin Hau Temple", the temple stands by the Tuen Mun River Channel. Subsequent to reclamation, the temple is now enclosed by factories.	No grade		200px
Castle Peak Road, opposite Sam Shing Estate, Sam Shing Hui, Tuen Mun		Not listed	picture	200px
Along Castle Peak Road, near Hong Kong Gold Coast	Tin Hau Temple to be confirmed.	Not listed	picture
Yu Chui Street, So Kwun Tan		Not listed		200px
So Kwun Wat		Not listed		200px
Tai Lam Kok, near Tai Lam Chung, Tuen Mun. Located across Castle Peak Road from the Maritime Services Training Institute.	Renovated in 1955.	No grade
Pak Long, Lung Kwu Tan		Not listed	[106]	200px
Sha Chau	Probably built in 1846. Rebuilt in 1998.	No grade	[107]

Wan Chai District

Location	Notes	Status	References	Photographs
No. 9, Blue Pool Road, Wong Nai Chung (Happy Valley)	The Tam Kung Temple, together with the Tin Hau Temple at the back, was relocated from the former Wong Nai Chung Village to the present site in 1901 to pave way for the redevelopment of Happy Valley. Managed by the Chinese Temples Committee. The temple complex can be explored with Google Street View.	No grade	.doc [108]	200px
Moored at the Causeway Bay Typhoon Shelter	Floating Tin Hau Temple (水上三角天后廟). It has been docked at its current location since 1955.	Not listed	[109]	200px

Wong Tai Sin District

Location	Notes	Status	References	Photographs
Behind Lok Tai House, Lok Fu Estate, Lok Fu		Not listed	[110]	200px
Nga Tsin Wai Tsuen		Not listed	[111]	200px

Yau Tsim Mong District

Location	Notes	Status	References	Photographs
Temple Street, Yau Ma Tei	See detailed article The Tin Hau Temple Complex comprises a row of five adjacent temples: a Tin Hau Temple, a Shing Wong Temple, a Kwun Yum temple, Shea Tan and Hsu Yuen. The Shea Tan and Hsu Yuen housed study halls, active until 1955.	Grade I	[112] [113]	200px

Yuen Long District

Location	Notes	Status	References	Photographs
Off Tai Shu Ha Road, Tai Kei Leng/Nga Yiu Tau, Shap Pat Heung	Called the "Tai Shu Ha Tin Hau Temple" (大樹下天后廟), it got its name from being a Tin Hau Temple under a tree. Probably built in 1786. The celebration taking place there for the Birthday of Tin Hau is one of the biggest in the city.	Grade II	[114]	200px
Wang Tat Road, Fung Chi Tsuen, Ping Shan	Constructed before 1908.	Grade I		200px
Tung Tau Tsuen, Yuen Long Kau Hui	It is connected with the Kwun Yum Temple at the back, and they are considered as one complex.	Grade III		200px
Sha Kong Tsuen, Ha Tsuen	Originally built in the 1800s.	Grade III	[115]	200px
Wing Ping Tsuen, San Tin	Called the "Tung Shan Temple" (東山廟), it is dedicated to Tin Hau. It underwent a renovation in 1893.	Grade III	[116]	200px
No.62 Shui Mei Tsuen, Kam Tin	It is believed that the temple was built between 1662–1722 and rebuilt in 1936.	Grade III	[117]
Ng Uk Tsuen, Wang Chau	Rebuilt in 1981.	Not listed		200px
Nam Hang Pai (南坑排), Shap Pat Heung, off Tai Tong Road	Located along Yuen Tsuen Ancient Trail.	Not listed	[118]	200px
Ha Pak Nai		Not listed	[119] [120] [121]	200px
Fung Kat Heung (逢吉鄉)		Not listed	[122] [123] [124] [125] [126]	200px
Hung Shui Kiu		Not listed	picture
Mai Po Lung Tsuen, San Tin		Not listed		200px
Ma Tin Pok (馬田壆)		Not listed	[127]	200px

See also

• Places of worship in Hong Kong