Na Tcha Temple

This guide to Na Tcha Temple in Macau covers a building barely the size of a living room, built in 1888 while plague was sweeping the city. It follows a local legend: one neighborhood near Saint Paul's Ruins was said to be spared, credited to a shrine to Na Tcha, a young warrior deity of Chinese mythology often invoked against disease — and what happened when residents elsewhere asked to bring that shrine to their own district. You'll also learn what runs directly behind this tiny temple: a stretch of the old Portuguese city wall, beside the ruins of a great Jesuit church.