Hong Kung Temple, Macau澳门康真君庙（康公庙）
- Type
- Temples and Abbeys (Gongguan)
- Location
- Macau, China · Macau · Freguesia de Santo António, Macau Peninsula · Middle section of Rua de Cinco de Outubro, at the southeast corner of its junction with Rua dos Mercadores, Largo do Pagode do Bazar
- Coordinates
- 22.1967, 113.5379 Map ↗
- First built
- 1860 (10th year of the Xianfeng reign of Qing) · Tradition holds that a wooden deity image was found on the shore, and the temple was built on the then-unreclaimed waterfront land
- Heritage status
- Macau Classified Immovable Property — Monument MM021 (1992)
Overview
The Hong Kung Temple, Macau (popularly the Hong Kung Miu) was built in the tenth year of the Xianfeng era of the Qing (1860), on Rua de Cinco de Outubro in Macau's Inner Harbour. Tradition holds that residents found a wooden deity image washed up on the shore and built the temple on what was then open ground by the waterfront. The main hall is dedicated to Perfected Lord Hong Kung (said to be Kang Baoyi, a famed general who resisted the Liao in the Northern Song), with the Great King of Guangli of the Southern Sea and the Marquis of Golden Sagacity of Xishan enshrined alongside him, while side halls hold the Sixth Patriarch Buddha and Hua Tuo, and a shrine to Lady Huafen stands before the entrance — a pantheon reflecting the diverse origins of Macau's Chinese community's beliefs. The square in front of the temple, Largo do Pagode do Bazar, was the center of Chinese commercial and civic life in Macau in the late nineteenth century, a bustling marketplace where the temple also served as a venue for neighborhood deliberation. The temple held a three-tiered gilded wooden deity altar and other treasures dating from the Xianfeng era of the Qing, tragically destroyed in a fire on February 22, 2010, which also scorched and damaged two sandalwood deity statues. It was classified as a monument (No. MM021) in 1992.
Highlights
- Perfected Lord Hong Kung enshrined with the Great King of Guangli and the Marquis
- The former marketplace of Largo do Pagode do Bazar
- 2010 fire and loss of artifacts