Tsz Tak Study Hall, Historic study hall in Fanling Wai, Hong Kong.
Tsz Tak Study Hall is a two-hall ancestral hall and study hall in Nam Wai, Fanling, built in 1846 by Pang Po-chun to honour his sixth-generation ancestor Pang Sze-yan. It has only a few classrooms, and its exterior still bears the archway reading "Fanling School". Renovations in 2000 replaced the side-room roofs with concrete and the windows with aluminium frames.
Tsz Tak Study Hall was built in 1846 by Pang Po-chun of the Fanling Pang clan to honour his sixth-generation ancestor Pang Sze-yan, and it also served as a village school. From 1936 it housed the government-funded Fanling School, whose archway still stands outside. In 1957 the school moved to a new site next door as Fanling Public School, and the hall later became a teachers' dormitory until the government barred lodging on school grounds.
The hall is one of three ancestral halls of the Pang clan of Fanling, built by Pang Po-tsun in 1846 to honour his sixth-generation ancestor Pang Sze-yan, from whom the name Tsz Tak derives. It served as an ancestral shrine and a clan school where only Pang children were admitted, using traditional Chinese textbooks. Today it is used by clan members for ancestral worship and banquets.
The hall stands in Nam Wai, Fanling, in Hong Kong's North District, and is a Grade II historic building. It no longer serves an educational function and is used by the Pang clan for ancestral worship and banquets, so it is not a public museum with set opening hours. The 2000 renovation replaced the side-room roofs with concrete and the windows with aluminium frames, altering the original appearance.
The 2000 renovation replaced the roofs of the side rooms with concrete and the windows with aluminium frames, altering the building's original appearance. The archway outside still carries the name "Fanling School", a trace of its use as a government-funded school from 1936.
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