Statue of Tam Kung

Shows the statue of Tam Kung on the altar in the Tam Kung Temple. Glasses with water and electric candles placed in front of the statue. Tam Kung (譚公, literally "Lord Tam") or Tam Tai Sin (譚大仙) is the god of seafarers worshiped in Hong Kong and Macau. Photo taken on May 9, 2012.

In Collection:

• Victoria’s Chinatown, a gateway to the past and present of Chinese Canadians

Subject

• Sculpture, Chinese
• Tam Kung Temple (Victoria, B.C.)
• Yen Wo Society (Victoria, B.C.)

Identifier

• IMG_4506

Date created

• 2012

Resource type

• Still Image

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Extent

• 1 colour photograph

Alternative title

• 譚公神像

Geographic coverage

• British Columbia--Victoria
• British Columbia--Victoria--Chinatown

Coordinates

• 48.4294, -123.3679
• 48.4359, -123.35155

Physical repository

• Yang, Charles

Collection

• Victoria’s Chinatown, a gateway to the past and present of Chinese Canadians

Provider

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Genre

• photographs
• color photographs

Is referenced by

• Victoria's Chinatown Project Website: https://chinatown.library.uvic.ca/index.html

Date digitized

• 2012

Technical note

• Cataloguing metadata provided by MH. Migration metadata by MT.

Rights

• These images are provided for research use only. These images are provided with the consent of the Yen Wo Society and cannot be reproduced or copied without permission. For more information, contact Dr. Zhongping Chen at zhchen@uvic.ca

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.58066/hhkf-ps86

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