Magong Beiji Temple


Magong Beiji Temple is a temple in Magong City, Penghu, Taiwan. It mainly serves Xuanwu. Because the location of temple is at the eastern side of ancient Magong city, so Beiji Temple is more widely known as "Dongjia Temple".

History

The year of establishment is unknown, some said it had existed since the late of Ming dynasty, some said it founded by Zhao Guang in 1690. However, we can confirm that the earliest recording of repair is after 1791 at least.
During the Guangxu years of Qing dynasty, there were three "jia", a kind of district unit in the past, which distributed over the Magong harbor area, they were "Dongjia ", "Beijia " and "Nanjia ", means "East Jia", "North Jia" and "South Jia" in Chinese.
By tradition, these local residents would serve their own temple in every single Jia. Magong Beiji Temple belongs to the Dongjia area, it is also the most ancient one among those three according to the chorography of Qing dynasty. Beiji Temples mainly serves "Xuan Tian Shang Di ", also known as "Zhen Wu Shang Di ", like other temples in Taiwan, it serves a lot of god statues as well, including Cundi Bodhisattva, Dark Lady, Lord of the Soil and the Ground, Royal Lord and so on.