Taipei Confucius Temple

This guide to the Taipei Confucius Temple traces why its front doors stay shut every single day and why no image of Confucius exists inside, only plain wooden tablets. It follows the shrine's loss under Japanese rule, when the original building a few streets away was torn down for a girls' school, and the twenty years three local families spent keeping the worship alive before rebuilding here in Dalongdong. The Fujian master carpenter who raised the hall had just finished Lungshan Temple across town.