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Mapping the Sacred
Every religious site in the 2022 survey on one map, the landscape and ecology around them, the density of records by district, and the moving shoreline.
Rethinking religious landscapes and heritage visualisation.
Sacred Hong Kong
Hong Kong keeps its sacred places in odd corners: a Baptist church on the thirty-ninth floor, a Daoist altar on the twenty-first, a Hindu temple above a shop. The Online Spiritual Atlas of the Global East counted 2,657 such places in 2022. Here you can follow them by floor, by shoreline, by deity and by street, and set the atlas beside the temple register, heritage lists, old maps and the census to see what each one records and what it leaves out.
The data at a glance
- 2,657religious places in the 2022 atlas
- 1,522records with a parsed floor
- 327temples in the official register
- 119register entries naming Guanyin
Start exploring
Choose how to explore
Start with places on a map, a walk, the vertical city, temple registers, historical photographs, or the project’s methods and sources.
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Vertical Sacred City
Explore how addresses and floors reveal worship inside the city’s buildings.
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Deities, Altars, and Rites
Read the deities named in temple registers, co-worship, and the ritual year.
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Itineraries
Follow a street walk, a route for one deity, or a district walk through Hong Kong’s religious and heritage landscapes.
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Temples in Black and White
Five temples told through photographs from the 1860s to the present, with the setting of each moment.
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Living Heritage
A forthcoming project about the social life of Hong Kong’s sacred artefacts, to be developed by HKU students as part of the owner’s Common Core Summer Course at HKU.
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About the Project
See how the records were joined, where they come from, and what they cannot show.