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1955 for a government housing project (Cheung Sha Wan MTR, Bus 2 from Star Ferry
TST).
Wong Tai Sin
One of Hong Kong's brightest, biggest and busiest temples is the Sik Sik Yuen
Wong Tai
northeast Kowloon. It is dedicated to a shepherd boy from Zhejiang who had special healing
powers and came to be revered as a demi-god after his death. The incense-wreathed temple
complex, which has halls dedicated to the Taoist, Confucian and Buddhist faiths, is espe-
cially packed at Lunar New Year as people come here to pray for prosperity and to rattle for-
tune sticks. The temple has given its name to a densely populated district, home to 440,000
people, that comprised villages until the influx of refugees in the late 1940s. Dominated by
squatter villages in the 1950s and 1960s, it was transformed by huge government housing
estates.
