Kwong Fook I Tsz

Kwong Fook I Tsz, known as Pak Shing Temple, located at 40 Tai Ping Shan Street. It was built in 1850s. The colonial government separated the residence of Chinese and foreigners. Tai Ping Shan and Sheung Wan area became the living place for the Chinese. At that time, many mainland Chinese who worked but died in Hong Kong. As they had no relatives nearby, they had to simply bury the dead. In 1851, 14 representatives of Chinese businessmen, applied to the government for land allocation and raise the fund to build Kwong Fook I Tsz in Tai Ping Shan. Therefore, Kwong Fook I Tsz was the place to refuge mainland Chinese who worked and died in Hong. Ksitigarbha Buddha, who bestows blessings on the spirits of the deceased to allow them to rest in peace.

Kwong Fook I Tsz, also provided medical service for the Chinese and took in people who no place to live, those who had no food and even people who were at death’s door, is an important organization serving for Chinese at that time. However, dead people, patients and people who live or for food who are in the same place, the hygienic environment was so bad. Finally, Governor McDonald decided to reorganize the Kwong Fook I Tsz and then approved a piece of land that was originally a Chinese burial site to build a Chinese medicine hospital. This is the origin of Tung Wan Hospital. In 1872, Tung Wah Hospital was officially opened, Kwong Fook I Tsz continued to place spiritual places, and Tung Wah Hospital took care of patients.