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25 Picturesque HK Temple of Five Hundred Genii Canton

25 Picturesque HK Temple of Five Hundred Genii Canton
Date picture taken (may be approximate): 
Sunday, January 1, 1899

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Likely not a temple in Hong Kong. It looks exactly as the one in Canton, China. The buddha statues were destroyed during the cultural revolution and remade in 1994. 

https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8D%8E%E6%9E%97%E5%AF%BA_(%E5%B9%BF%E5%B7%9E)

Some picures in the following:

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1870 hualin temple.png
1870 hualin temple.png, by simtang

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1907 hualin temple.png
1907 hualin temple.png, by simtang

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during last years of qing dynasty hualin temple.png
during last years of qing dynasty hualin temple.png, by simtang

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1994 hualin temple.png
1994 hualin temple.png, by simtang

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The book was titled "Picturesque Hong Kong" and included scenes of Macao and Canton. The book can be viewed here