艋舺啟天宮 料舘媽祖 — Local services in Taipei

The temple worships Mazu, sometimes was called Sea Goddess by the western media, as main Goddess, and it is one of the earliest Taiwanese temples which worship Mazu because of early immigrants from China to Taiwan.

The temple was built in 1811, and it went through 6 times of additions and partial rebuilt.

Because it is located in small lane or alley of the Wanhwa or Banga district, the temple is not famous or popular for the tourists who generally visit Lungshan (Dragon Mountain) Temple. The temple relies on local residents or believers for funding, when it does not have corporate sponsor either.

The temple is one of the temples, in Taiwan, which allows visitors to take photos in short distance in front of the main deity, when most of the Taiwanese temples disallow photo taking in short distance (by setting up wood barriers) of the main God or goddess, although they generally allow photo taking inside main worship hall.

Because temple seems to rely on limited local residents' donations and fund support, Temple is not well maintained, although it still provides free incenses and other worship supplies to the worshippers.

When I visited the Temple again on Oct 11, 2019, the Temple's staffs were preparing for community religious...

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啟天宮又名料館天后宮、料館媽祖廟[1]，位於台灣台北市萬華區廣州街，為一所天后宮。今為台北市萬華區之傳統廟宇建築。[2]該廟宇興建於清朝同治年間，組織型態為管理委員會制。

該廟宇為主祀海神媽祖之道教廟宇，原是「艋舺大檀越」黃阿祿嫂的料館（木材行）中奉祀的媽祖神像，因為靈驗而遠近馳名，於是阿祿嫂發心，將料館讓予媽祖，稱為「料館天后行宮」。而後又奉祀保護樟腦工人的「防番之神」池王爺與武神關帝君，臺灣日治時期又加奉了傳為原臺北大天后宮的媽祖軟身神像。祭典日期是每年農曆之三月廿三。

艋舺為清代北臺灣商業中心，自嘉慶十五年（西元1810年）...

艋舺啟天宮，當地人稱料館媽祖或料館媽，是位在台北市萬華區的一間媽祖廟。 艋舺在清代是重要的商業中心，嘉慶15年(1810)起配置戰船保衛河運安全，為了船隻維修在道光五年設置船廠，修船的木料由「軍工匠首」入山筏木，此地聚集不少工人，稱為料館。 傳說在道光21(1842)，一艘載運杉木的帆船到料館卸貨，在返回福建時居然自動回航，經請示船上的媽祖神像，方知媽祖娘娘欲在地駐駕，便由經營木材行的黃姜生、黃萬鍾父子迎回家中供奉。1916年在地方仕紳奔走下，本廟正式建成並起名啟天宮。相比艋舺四大廟門或艋舺三大廟來說，料館媽的知名度相對較低，加上廟身位在巷弄當中，兩邊的招牌不明顯，我也是在田野過程中才得知有這間廟宇。啟天宮建築古色古香，因空間不大，鐘樓鼓樓緊貼在天井兩側，形成極具特色的祭祀空間，鐘樓鼓樓現作為倉庫使用，鐘與鼓則往前移動靠近廟門。 有機會來艋舺逛逛，除了三大廟之外，不妨來啟天宮...