Mobile Taipei temple enshrines discarded deities
Mobile Taipei temple enshrines discarded deities
2025-11-12
There’s a one-of-a-kind temple under Taipei’s Bailing Bridge that can be moved from place to place. Thanks to its mobility, this temple on wheels has helped it survive many typhoons when the water rises under the bridge. Bailing Temple has a history of over 20 years and has recently been trending online.
Ma Sheng-chieh
FTV reporter
This temple under Bailing Bridge in Shilin looks ordinary at first glance. But taking a closer look, it has four wheels underneath, making it easy to move at any time.
The temple was made from an iron cart, then painted red and outfitted with a red roof, with various deities resting on its tiered shelves. Compared to a traditional temple, this is more like a cart for worshiping deities.
Devotee
It floods here when there’s lots of rain, but there was no way to move the temple. Later they added wheels so it can be pushed up and down the hill.
Typhoons bring heavy rains that often flood the Keelung River under the bridge. To keep the temple safe, they added wheels so it could be moved to higher ground. The temple itself has an interesting history. It enshrines deities that were abandoned along the river by people who blamed these gods when they lost the lottery. The temple abbot and devotees collected and restored these discarded deities, enshrining them so that people could freely come and worship them.
Mr. Chein
Abbot
These discarded deities were there for 40 or 50 years before we collected them. We organized them into this temple in 2003.
To this day, people still bring deities to the temple that they no longer worship at home. Others, after consulting the deities using moon blocks, take them home to worship them.
Devotee
They were buying a house and moving, so they came to ask if they could put Matsu here. The moon blocks said yes, so they enshrined her here.
Bailing Temple was created to enshrine deities that people cast aside. More than 20 years later, its unique design and mobility have made it famous.
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落難神明落腳處! 台北百齡寺裝輪子一拉就走
2025-11-12
在台北市的百齡橋下，有一間神奇的廟宇，整間廟以"攤車"打造而成，也就是說，隨時都可以將整間廟"推著走"，相當奇特！這一間廟叫做"百齡寺"，住持說，過去颱風來襲，百齡橋下都會淹水，所以才會打造"行動廟宇"，至今已經20多年，而這一間奇特的廟宇，也在網路上掀起討論。
[[民視記者 馬聖傑]]
“士林百齡橋下有著一間百齡寺，乍看就跟一般廟宇沒兩樣，但湊近看發現底下有四個輪子，隨時都能推走”
鐵製推車的外觀，漆成紅色，搭配紅色屋頂與匾額，階梯層架擺滿各式神尊，與其說是寺廟，更是像把神尊，供奉在推車上。
[[信徒]]
“會淹水，下大雨會淹水，(廟)要離開的時候就沒辦法離開，後來就做這個輪子，要把它推走，上坡再下坡”
當初是為了避免颱風來，一旁基隆河暴漲、淹大水，才在廟的底下加裝輪子，能提前把廟推到高處，只是為何會將神尊供奉在此？原來是過去六合彩盛行時，許多人輸錢，就怪神明不靈，把神尊丟了，百齡寺住持和其他信眾，看到基隆河旁，有許多被民眾遺棄的神尊，就一一整理，供奉在鐵製推車上，讓民眾隨意參拜。
[[住持 簡先生]]
“落難神還沒來整理的時候，是四十、五十年了，92年整理成現在這個樣字”
如今也有民眾，會將家中不祭拜的神尊送過來，也有人會擲筊詢問神明，把這邊的神尊帶回家供奉。
[[信徒]]
“他們好像是買了房子要搬，就來問可以把(媽祖)放在這邊嗎，(擲筊)說可以，就給祂請來了”
當初為了讓落難神明有個落腳處，打造宛如行動攤車的百齡寺，奇特外觀與造型，掀起討論。
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