Tainan Grand Mazu Temple

Beautiful temple with a few olde world tea shops nearby. Grab a drink and take in the splendor of the temple. Absolutely beautiful. Very well maintained worth a visit

Well-known temple in Tainan. Not really crowded even it was the 1st day of the year. Recommended to go there for praying and make wishes

One of the four ancient temples in this area with about 400 years history at time of this visit. Traditional Chinese temple design, good place to visit. Temple is Taoist as base, small Buddhist section at side of temple. Similar to lots of Chinese temples.

A particularly interesting temple with a number of fine paintings, stone tablets and bas relief sculpture, some dating back as far as the Ming Dynasty. Should you find yourself in the neighborhood, inquire at Share House Cafe nearby if you are interested in getting a terrific and scholarly overview of its history and the symbolism and meaning of the artwork contained therein.

This is the famous temple to visit in Tainan 🇹🇼 There are many stations and stop to pray 🙏🏻 mostly they are all in Chinese. Google Translate must be considered and essential to visit the temple 😅 there are street food and drink vendor along the temple side 👍🏻

Though it's named as "grand" but not really. In our opinion, the name mainly is more representative of it being the oldest or at least one of the original mazu temple in Tainan. Can see it went thru much renovation over the years. The main temple housed the resident deity Mazu. The annex is a Buddhist temple, quite signature in Taiwan where the Taoist and Buddhist shares the same complex.

Pretty impressive structure with the back courtyard. Really neat to see the worshippers praying. There is a big fireplace in the back to burn the paper money intended for the family on the other world.

It was packed here... Smoking from the incents was overwhelming.