Tian Hou (Tien Haw)

Photo of a statue of Tien Haw (960-987 AD) (Tian Hou, 天后）in Palace of the Saints. Tien Haw, also called Mazu (媽祖, 妈祖), is the most recent deity to be enshrined. She is the patron saint of the seas, and all travelers ask for her blessing before embarking on an ocean voyage.

In Collection:

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

Contributor

• Amos, Robert

Subject

• Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association (Victoria, B.C.)
• Mazu (Chinese deity)
• Sculpture, Chinese

Identifier

• AMOS 41 god2

Date created

• 2009

Resource type

• Still Image

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Extent

• 1 colour photograph

Alternative title

• 天后像

Geographic coverage

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

Coordinates

• 48.4359, -123.35155
• 48.4294, -123.3679

Physical repository

• Amos, Robert

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

• Copyright held by Robert Amos. Permission granted for use on Victoria’s Chinatown website only. For all other uses please contact the copyright holder. These images are provided with the consent of Robert Amos, and cannot be reproduced or copied without his permission.

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.58066/jnvy-pn71

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