On the night of May 12, 2021, the Taoist Temple Museum in the China Alley Historic District of Hanford, CA was heavily damaged by fire. While the building is stable, the fire caused severe heat and smoke damage to the temple room and its artifacts on the second floor, which will require significant clean up and conservation.
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Interior of Temple c. 1890, 2019, and 2021.
See below for more images of the temple before and after fire. Photos by Evelyn Hang Yin.
The Taoist Temple and China Alley was featured in The Fresno Bee in 1996.
The Last Temple was made at China Alley in 1972 by Maurice Chuck and his San Francisco Journal. Reported by Kathryn Fong, videographer Curtis Choy, and director Frank Chin. It provides a glimpse of what China Alley looked like half a century ago.