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Fan Sin Temple and Wun Yiu Kilns 上碗窑樊仙宫及碗窑Shàng Wǎnyáo Fánxiān Gōng Jí Wǎnyáo
Declared monument · Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- Time needed
- 1 hour
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Hong Kong
- Region
- Hong Kong
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- Declared monument
About Fan Sin Temple and Wun Yiu Kilns
Fan Sin Temple is the main temple of Sheung Wun Yiu and Ha Wun Yiu, villages that made blue-and-white porcelain from the Ming dynasty until the kilns closed in 1932. It honours Fan Tai Sin Sze, patron saint of potters, a dedication the Antiquities and Monuments Office says is unique in Hong Kong; a plaque in the main hall dates from 1790, and the temple was fully restored in 2000 after a fire in the 1970s. The remains of the Wun Yiu pottery kilns in Sheung Wun Yiu are a separate declared monument, where excavations in 1995 and 1999 found clay pits, water-mills, an animal-driven grinder, soaking tanks and dragon kilns.
How to get to Fan Sin Temple and Wun Yiu Kilns
In Sheung Wun Yiu village, about 1.1 km south-west of Tai Po Market MTR station; closed on Tuesdays except public holidays.
Nearby
- Victoria Harbour 维多利亚港 20 km
Glass towers and green hills around a harbour you can cross in ten minutes - Victoria Peak 太平山顶 20 km
Ride the 1888 funicular to the skyline view, then walk the Lugard Road loop - Tian Tan Buddha & Ngong Ping 天坛大佛与昂坪 30 km
A giant bronze Buddha on Lantau, reached by a 25-minute cable car ride
Also within 20 km: Old District Office North 旧北区理民府 (under 10 km), Hong Kong Railway Museum 香港铁路博物馆 (under 10 km), Old Tai Po Police Station (Green Hub) 旧大埔警署 (under 10 km), Man Mo Temple, Tai Po 大埔文武二帝庙 (under 10 km), Island House, Tai Po 前政务司官邸 (under 10 km), King Law Ka Shuk, Tai Po Tau Tsuen 敬罗家塾 (under 10 km).
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