Wong Tai Temple, Taoist temple in Fanling, Hong Kong.
Wong Tai Temple, also called Huangdi Temple, stands at 18 Sha Tau Kok Road in On Lok Village, Fanling, facing Luen Wo Market. The rebuilt complex covers 10,000 square feet over seven storeys. Its halls honour Huangdi, Yandi, Confucius, the Three Precious Buddhas, the Four Great Bodhisattvas and the Three Pure Ones, and it holds niches for ashes and ancestral tablets.
The temple was first built in 1925 as the Xuan Yuan Ancestral Temple, a communal hall where villagers of various surnames from Fanling and the wider North District gathered for worship and meetings; it also housed the New Agricultural School, a primary school. The Tang clan of Lung Yeuk Tau raised funds to demolish it in 2000; the foundation stone was laid in mid-2001 and reconstruction was finished in mid-2005, when it was renamed Wong Tai Temple.
The temple's name changed from Xuan Yuan Ancestral Temple to Wong Tai Temple after its 2000–2005 rebuilding, funded by the Tang clan of Lung Yeuk Tau. It honours Huang Di, regarded as the ancestor of all Chinese, and its halls combine Confucian, Buddhist and Taoist worship, with separate halls for the Three Treasures Buddha, the Four Great Bodhisattvas, the Three Pure Ones and the Three Masters.
The temple stands at 18 Sha Tau Kok Road, Lung Yeuk Tau section, in On Lok Village, facing Luen Wo Market. From Fanling MTR station, take a minibus to Luen Wo Market or walk about five minutes. The seven-storey building holds columbarium niches and ancestral tablets, so some halls are reserved for families of the deceased.
The temple's name was changed from Xuan Yuan Ancestral Temple to Wong Tai Temple when the Deng clan of Lung Yeuk Tau completed the rebuild in 2005. The seven-storey building also holds bone-ash niches and ancestral tablets for worshippers.
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