The also known as the ''Jinguashi Shinto Shrine'', ''Gold Temple'' or is a Shinto shrine located halfway up a mountain in the Gold Ecological Park in

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(formerly Kinkaseki, Zuihō town, Kirun district,

Taihoku Prefecture Taihoku Prefecture (台北州; ''Taihoku-shū'') was an administrative division of Taiwan created in 1920, during Japanese rule. The prefecture consisted of modern-day Keelung, New Taipei City, Taipei and Yilan County. Its government office, ...

during Japanese rule). Kinkaseki town (now

) at the time of Japanese rule was said to have been the number one

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town in Asia. The Ōgon Shrine was built and managed by the on March 2, 1933 ( Shōwa 8). , , and were enshrined as the three . During Japanese rule, a grand

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was held every year and the mine workers and nearby residents gathered together to celebrate. Originally, there was a Honden Main Hall,

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, Temizuya Purification Pavilion, and Sandō Path leading to the shrine. Along the path were three Torii Gates, five flag banner platforms, one copper bull, and ten pairs of stone

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lanterns. After

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when the Japanese left Taiwan, the shrine was destroyed by vandals and only the stone pillars of the Honden, two

Torii A is a traditional Japanese gate most commonly found at the entrance of or within a Shinto shrine, where it symbolically marks the transition from the mundane to the sacred. The presence of a ''torii'' at the entrance is usually the simple ...

Gates, and four pair of stone Tōrō lanterns remain today.

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on 2011-07-24. Retrieved 2018-08-06 - More pictures of the shrine and a Japanese residential house. 1933 establishments in Taiwan Buildings and structures in New Taipei Shinto shrines in Taiwan Tourist attractions in New Taipei 20th-century Shinto shrines {{Taiwan-religious-struct-stub