Tam Kung Temple

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Tam Kung Temple in Coloane, Macau
by KC Tang, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Coloane2.jpg, and used under GNU Free Documentation License

Tam Kung Temple, or Tam Kung Miu, at Rua de Cinco Outubro, Coloane, is a temple dedicated to the sea deity worshipped in Hong Kong and Macau. It is one of two temples dedicated to Tam Kung in the vicinity - the other being in Hong Kong. According to Chinese folk legend, Tam Kung was born in Huizhou Prefecture. Even when he was a child, he could cure patients. At the age of twenty, he became an immortal in the Nine-dragon Mountain in Huizhou.

Tam Kung Temple contains a four feet long model of a dragon boat made from a whalebone, with a crew of wooden men in red robes and yellow hats. On the wall is a mural of a tiger with club against a backdrop of rocks and twisted pines.






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