Recently, as I was searching for some statistics to compare with the new Taiwan church demographic maps from TEAM, I found an article from this past summer about places of worship in Taiwan. The numbers could be a little skewed considering the amount of unregistered temples around the island. So I believe it would be extremely difficult to estimate a total, especially considering there are so many small temples along the road or on hillsides. Thinking about how many temples are near the NCUE campus, I remembering spotting about 15+ in a kilometer radius compared to the two or three churches.
Please pray God will continue to show favor to Taiwan by revealing himself to the Taiwanese, as well as raising up Taiwanese believers and missionaries to share Jesus, so many more people will believe in the name of Jesus as their savior throughout the island!
Taipei Times – July 28, 2009
“There are 14,993 temples and churches for the nation’s 23 million residents, approximately one place of worship per 1,500 residents, statistics recently released by the Ministry of the Interior show. At the end of last year, Taiwan had 11,731 registered temples, 2,356 more than 10 years ago, and 3,262 churches, an increase of 145 over the same period. The 9,202 Taoist temples, many of which not only house Taoist folk deities but also idols of Buddha and the Buddhist goddess Guanyin (??), account for 78.4 percent of all temples. The 2,291 Buddhist temples account for 19.5 percent of the total and the 200 I-Kuan Tao temples account for 1.7 percent. Southern counties and cities have more temples than elsewhere in the country, with Tainan County leading the list with 1,245, followed by Kaohsiung County with 1,142 and Pingtung County with 1,068. Taipei City has the largest number of churches, with 432, followed by Hualien County’s 300 and Taitung County’s 266. Protestant churches outnumber Catholic churches by approximately three to one.”
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