China - Interior of a Joss House

Lantern slide of Interior of a Joss House. A Shenist temple or Chinese folk temple is a place for worshiping the variety of indigenous Chinese shen (deities, saints, ancestors and supernatural beings) from Chinese folk religion (Shenism) and Chinese mythology. They can be distinguished into miao, called joss houses, deity houses or simply temples in English, and ci, called ancestral halls or simply temples in English. Part of Box 159 Pekin, slide no 11

Ancestors Ancestral Beings Deities Deity Distinguished Halls Joss Miao Peking Shen Simply Slides Supernatural Temples Worshiping

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