Sze Yup Temple

New South Wales, Australia

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The Sze Yup Temple is a heritage-listed Taoist joss house in Glebe, inner western Sydney, built between 1898 and 1904. One of only four pre–World War I Chinese temples still active in Australia, it venerates Kwan Ti (Guan Di), a deity derived from Guan Yu of the Three Kingdoms Period. The temple's architecture reflects the style of the Sze Yup (Four Counties) region of Guangdong, China. The central hall, completed in 1898, houses the main Kwan Ti shrine, while the eastern and western halls added in 1903 serve as an ancestral hall and a shrine to Caishen, the god of wealth. The property was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register in 1999 and remains under the stewardship of the Trustees of the Sze Yup Temple.