Place of worship
Xingtian Temple
No. 109, Section 2, Minquan E Rd, Xingzheng Village, Zhongshan District, Taipei City, Taiwan 10491
Downtown Taoist shrine with no incense burners or donation boxes, where devotees calm frightened souls.
This guide to Xingtian Temple in Taipei opens on a Sunday morning in August 2014, when priests here asked Lord Guan, the deified general worshipped as protector of soldiers, police and businessmen, a question using divination blocks about the temple's incense burners. A vendor who had sold incense and paper offerings here for more than fifty years switched to selling flowers instead. A nearby shopkeeper said business had gone downhill overnight.
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