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Places Of Worship
By Hazel Chan
St Johns Cathedral• officially called The Cathedral Church of
St. John the Evangelist, located at 4 Garden Road, Central
• It is the oldest surviving western ecclesiastical building in HK
• It was completed in 1849 • It was built in early English and gothic
style and is built in the shape of a cross• It use to be a club house for the
Japanese in WW2
• It costed £8,736 to for St Johns to be built
• It has Sunday schools for both children and adults
Po Lin Monastery•Po Lin Monastery is located on Lantau Island on Hong Kong
•The monastery was founded in 1906 by three monks and was finished in 1924
• The big Buddha is also a part of the monastery
•The monastery is quite big it has lots different rooms, halls and they even have a pond and a garden in the monastery
•Lot’s of tourists go to the Po Lin Monastery but it is a great place for people who want to worship the Buddha
Ten Thousand Buddha's Monastery
• This monastery is located at 220 Pai Tau Village, Shatin in Hong Kong
• The monastery was completed in 1957• The main building of the monastery is
the Ten Thousand Buddhas Temple • The monastery has totally 5 different
temples • It actually took eight years to complete
all buildings and another ten years to finish the all more than 12,000 Buddha's statues
•Some of the statues there were painted with pure gold