Hoi Wong Temple

Fishermen had to go out to sea to make a living. So most of them believed in the water gods to pray for safety at sea. Go straight and turn left, you will see a small temple near the street, which is the Hoi Wong Temple.

The Hoi Wong Temple is about only one meter high and breadth. Information regarding this temple is quite hard to find. Reportedly, it was there a long time ago and was completed in 1950. It was originally smaller, but extended in the 1980s. It was located at a shore-side where fishermen went out to the sea and went on the shore. This is the only temple consecrated to Hoi Wong, one of the Emperors of the Sea. On every year's twelve of December in the Lunar Calendar, people will invite a Taoist priest and place many offerings surrounding the temple, like pastries and fruits, to celebrate the Hoi Wong Festival.

There is a rule that people cannot move the location of the temple. In 1979, around the period Aberdeen Centre was established, people tried to relocate the temple because of the city's development. Immediately, a nearby restaurant caught fire. They thought they had made the water god angry. Afterward, nobody dares to move it. That's why it is near the street. It shows the original coastline of this area.