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Lungshan Temple
Lungshan Temple is located in the district Manka of Taipei.
It was founded in 1738 and dedicated to the Buddhist Goddess of Mercy.

The temple originated its name from the ancient Lungshan Temple established in Chin-chiang county of Fukien province in the seventh century.

Immigrants from the three counties Chin-chiang, Nan-an and Hui-an of Fukien came to Manka in the beginning of the eighteenth century.

As they were pious (religious , faithful ) followers of that ancient Lungshan Temple in their home town , they erected(build , raise) this one as a branch temple at Manka and named it after the root temple when they created a new settlement here in Taipei.
Lungshan Temple of today is no longer in the original buildings constructed in 1738.

It rebuilt in 1919 and completed in 1924.
Lungshan temple always keeps it nature as Buddhist temple, but in the course of its development many deities(god, divinity) of Taoism were also included.