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Places Of Worship
By Hazel Chan
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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
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• It costed £8,736 to for St Johns to be built
• It has Sunday schools for both children and adults
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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
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•Lot’s of tourists go to the Po Lin Monastery but it is a great place for people who want to worship the Buddha
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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
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•Some of the statues there were painted with pure gold