Panorama inside one of the rooms of the famous Man Mo Temple in Hong Kong. This side room to the temple contains numerous burial plaques on the wall, with various idols and statues at one end and coils of incense hanging from the roof. These coils burn continuously filling the building with incense smoke.

Man Mo Temple - Side Temple - Hong Kong visitor guide showing a virtual tour of 'Man Mo Temple - Side Temple' linked to an interactive map with local and travel information. 360° panoramas from Hong Kong.

Man Mo Temple is among the oldest temple in Hong Kong. Built in 1848, Man Mo Temple is still intensively used by local Chinese who come here to pray and present offerings to the two gods, Man Cheong, the god of literature, and Mo, or Kwan Yu, the god of war or martial valor. Statues of both these gods are found within the temple and people continually present gifts to the statues in attempts to seek their blessing and favour.

In past times locals would come to the Man Mo Temple to settle local disputes that could not be settled under British law. Both parties would write out the settlement, along with an appropriate curse for not keeping it, on yellow paper. Blood from a beheaded chicken was then dripped onto the paper which was burnt as a testimony.

Today, while people come and burn incense at the Man Mo Temple to seek favours. Outside the temple is a fast trade in fortune telling and selling gifts and incense for this purpose. Much of the Man Mo Temple has changed since the original temple was built, but the core structure remains. There are a couple of ornately carved 18C chairs by the portals which were used to carry the statues through Hong Kong on processions.

The Man Mo Temple is on the corner of Ladder Street and Hollywood Street in Central.

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