Fujian Assembly Hall
Chinese assembly hall and shrine to a sea goddess, founded by Fujian merchants fleeing dynastic collapse.
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This guide to the Fujian Assembly Hall in Hoi An opens with fishermen dragging a stone-carved goddess out of the surf sometime around 1697. It reaches back roughly fifty years earlier, to six Fujian generals who refused to bow to China's new Qing rulers and sailed their families south into typhoon season with nowhere fixed to land, praying the whole way to Thien Hau, a fisherman's daughter worshipped as protector of ships in trouble. The refugees eventually settled here on the Thu Bon River and built a Chinese quarter of their own. Look for the mural inside of six armored men, painted long after that voyage.
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