Buddhist, Taoist Temples and Statues Destroyed Nationwide

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The CCP continues crackdowns on traditional Chinese places of worship and religious icons.


The Tianyiyuan Temple in Gushan town in the Jin’an district of Fuzhou, the capital of the southeastern province of Fujian, was demolished on June 30 because the local authorities requisitioned the land on which it stood. The Taoist temple spanned a history of 600 years and was an important religious venue in the area.

“Top town officials brought about 50 police officers, who surrounded the temple, and then workers demolished it with an excavator,” an eyewitness recalled.

On October 10, the Shanggan town government in Fuzhou’s Minhou county demolished the Taoist Pangu Emperor Temple to give way for road construction.

The Buddhist Fushou Temple, built in 1992 in Fuzhou’s Cangshan district, was leveled to the ground on June 27 on the pretext of “building an expressway.” The temple owner also had a second venue, a 600-square-meter temple on the Longyan Mountain in the district, built last year with the government’s approval. The new temple was destroyed in June as well because the authorities claimed that it “illegally occupied forestland.” The Buddhist suffered a loss of over 1.1 million RMB (about $ 168,000).

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Buddhist, Taoist Temples and Statues Destroyed Nationwide