A Chinatown is an ethnic enclave of Chinese people located outside mainland China,Hong Kong,Macau or Taiwan,most often in an urban setting. Areas known as "Chinatown" exist throughout the world,including Europe,North America,South America,Asia,Africa and Australasia.
Chinatown is a neighborhood in Downtown Los Angeles,California,that became a commercial center for Chinese and other Asian businesses in Central Los Angeles in 1938. The area includes restaurants,shops,and art galleries,but also has a residential neighborhood with a low-income,aging population of about 20,000 residents.
Thian Hock Keng,is a temple built for the worship of Mazu,a Chinese sea goddess,located in Singapore. It is the oldest and most important temple of the Hokkien (Hoklo) people in the country. Another shrine at the back is Buddhist dedicated to Guanyin,the Mahayana Buddhist bodhisattva of mercy.
The Thean Hou Temple is a six-tiered temple of the Chinese sea goddess Mazu located in Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia. It is located on 1.67 acres (6,758 m2) of land atop Robson Heights on Lorong Bellamy,overlooking Jalan Syed Putra. It was completed in 1987 and officially opened in 1989. The temple was built by Hainanese living in Malaysia and the property belongs to and is run by the Selangor and Federal Territory Hainan Association. It is one of the largest temples in Southeast Asia.
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The Goddess of Mercy Temple is a Chinese temple in the city of George Town in Penang,Malaysia. Situated at Pitt Street,it was first built in 1728,making it Penang's oldest Taoist temple.
Chinese temple architecture refer to a type of structures used as place of worship of Chinese Buddhism,Taoism or Chinese folk religion,where people revere ethnic Chinese gods and ancestors. They can be classified as:
The Thien Hau Temple,officially the Ba Thien Hau Pagoda,is a Chinese-style temple of the Chinese Goddess of Sea,Mazu on Nguyễn Trãi Street in the Cholon ("Chinatown") of District 5 in Ho Chi Minh City,Vietnam.
BàChúa Xứ or Chúa XứThánh Mẫu is a prosperity goddess worshiped in the Mekong Delta region as part of Vietnamese folk religions. She is a tutelary of business,health,and a protector of the Vietnamese border. She is considered prestigious and is worshipped in her temple in Vĩnh Tếvillage at the foot of Sam Mountain,An Giang province. A three-day festival is held in the village at the beginning of the rainy season,beginning on the twenty-third day of the fourth lunar month,in her honour. BàChúa Xứreached her peak of popularity in the 1990s and still endears pilgrims and followers in and outside Vietnam with her responsiveness to fervent and sincere prayers.
Thiên Y A Na is a Vietnamese goddess. She is worshipped in the Vietnamese folk religion and Đạo Mẫu,the mother goddess religion. She is also known as Lady Po Nagar,the Cham deity from whom she originated. The Cham people of Vietnam had been much influenced by India,and it is believed that PôNagar is represented with the characteristics of Bhagavati Uma. The cult of Thiên Y A Na is popular in Vietnam,particularly among women. She is channeled through Lên đồng rituals. There have been many temples and shrines devoted to her throughout the last several centuries.
Thien Hau Temple is the Vietnamese name for a Mazu temple,and can refer to:
Đạo Mẫu is the worship of mother goddesses which was established in Vietnam in the 16th century.
Weaverville Joss House State Historic Park is a state park located in the center of the town of Weaverville,California. The site is a Taoist temple which is still in use,and is the oldest Chinese temple in California.
Chinese temples are sacred sites for the practice of Chinese folk religion and Chinese Buddhism. Kolkata has a significant population of Indian nationals of Chinese ethnic origin. Unofficial estimates puts the population of Indian nationals of Chinese-origin in Kolkata anywhere from 5,000 to 200,000,most of whom live in or near Tangra. The Chinese brought with them their culture. At least eight of the Chinese temples are located in the old Chinatown around Tiretta Bazar in Central Kolkata.
Vietnamese folk religion,is the ethnic religion of the Vietnamese people. About 86% of the population in Vietnam are associated with this religion.
The Tin How Temple is the oldest extant Taoist temple in San Francisco's Chinatown,and one of the oldest still-operating Chinese temples in the United States. It is dedicated to the Chinese sea goddess Mazu,who is known as Tin How in Cantonese.
Chinese folk religion plays a dynamic role in the lives of the overseas Chinese who have settled in the countries of this geographic region,particularly Burmese Chinese,Singaporean Chinese,Malaysian Chinese,Thai Chinese and Hoa. The Indonesian Chinese,by contrast,were forced to adopt en masse either Buddhism or Christianity in the 1950s and 1960s,abandoning traditional worship,due to Indonesia's religious policies which at the time forbade Chinese traditional religion or did not recognize it as a "religion" thus making it vulnerable to discrimination. Some Chinese Filipinos also still practice some Chinese traditional religions,besides Christianity of either Roman Catholicism or Protestantism,of which some have also varyingly syncretized traditional Chinese religious practices with. Chinese folk religion,the ethnic religion of Han Chinese,"Shenism" was especially coined referring to its Southeast Asian expression;another Southeast Asian name for the religion is the Sanskrit expression Satya Dharma.
Tian Hou Gong Temple is a Chinese temple situated in Jalan Balik Bukit in the north of the Chinatown of Kuala Terengganu,Terengganu,Malaysia.
Miao (廟) are buildings in traditional East Asian religions enshrining gods,myths or legends,sages of past dynasties,and famous historical figures. They are a kind of Chinese temple architecture and contrast with Ci Shrines which enshrine ancestors and people instead of deities.
