I've always wanted to visit
Sydney's only purely Taoist temple, but because it's kind of out of the way (for me) in Bourke St, Redfern, I never really seemed to get around to it.
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I finally got to visit it, and of course I was intrigued.
The temple is a wonderful place, brash and colourful in the way of all Chinese popular Taoist temples.
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While we were there there was a memorial service going on in the hall of the ancestors, so we had the main hall entirely to ourselves.
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I'm not very familiar with
popular Taoist iconography, so I can't really explain much about the
shrines you see in these pics. But the
temple had some very helpful signs below the shrines explaining who the
deities were, so soon I am going to do some homework and look them all up. Taoist statuary is fascinating, and I can't believe I've gone this long without learning more about it.
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