About Thien Hau Temple - Chinatown Story..    

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is a Taoist temple in Los Angeles Chinatown. It is one of the more popular areas for worship and tourism in the Los Angles area,

The original building of the temple was originally a Christian church and was bought in the 1980s and transformed into a small Taoist temple. Under a strong faith-based community in and outside of Chinatown Los Angeles, the temple was able to raise a great deal of donated money with which to build a larger and grander temple next door, which was completed in September 2005. They also dedicated a new ancestral memorial hall dedicated to the bodhisattva Dizang the following month.

Many people come to the temple especially during the first week after New Year to receive a blessing for the year. On the 15th day of the New Year people come to the temple to beckon for money from Mazu and to pay back what they promised to her.