Check out the detail of the interior roof of the Tianhou Temple in Lugang Township. Broadly, the detail and devotion at this site was extraordinary, in Western society reminiscent of the more ornate Catholic churches one might find in many places. What is remarkable, perhaps more remarkable, is just how widely used these temples were, with worshipers burning incense and reciting prayers all hours of the day and night. They felt like the central avenues of daily life that indeed they were to many Taiwanese.
