Xiluo Guangfu Temple Introduction
Luoyang Fushen Grandma, commonly known as Xinjie Grandma, is the main deity enshrined in Guangfu Temple, which worships Mazu. The belief community covers 120 villages in Yunlin and Changhua. The grand temple was rebuilt during the Showa era of Japanese rule and commissioned top-notch craftsmen such as Wang Huai'ai, Chen Tianqi, Guo Xinlin, Jiang Jinxiu, and Liao Wu, and it has become a designated historic site in Yunlin County. As for the incense offerings, it is said that during the early Qing Dynasty, immigrants from mainland China settled in Xiluo Street in the Yunlin area. Two major ethnic groups from Guangdong and Fujian in the Luoyang area pooled resources to build the temple to worship the Holy Mother, naming it Guangfu Temple. (The stone ancestor furnace in the temple is inscribed: "Guangfu Heavenly Holy Mother, Established in the Meiyue of the Xinmao Year," which was erected before the temple was built in the sixteenth year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty.) Commonly referred to as: Luoyang Ma, Xiluo Ma, Grandma, Xinjie Grandma.
