Na Tcha Temple

The Na Cha Temple in the Chinese city of Macau is one of the many Buddhist and Taoist temples in the city. It is dedicated to the Chinese deity Na Cha, who is also known as Nata or Na Zha. He is depicted as a boy flying in the sky. On his feet he has fire wheels, and in his hands a gold hoop and a spear. The temple itself is quite small and the inner hall is a modest room no more than eight meters in length.

The temple was built in 1888 and is located next to the ruins of St. Paul's Cathedral, against the background of which it looks quite inconspicuous. The temple of Na Cha consists of a main hall with a statue of a deity and a very small room for worship. The outside of the temple is no less modest than inside. The exterior walls are painted gray, and above the main entrance there are only a few decorations in the traditional Chinese style.

Near the temple there is a fragment of the city wall, built in the early XVI century. It is made of a special building material chunambo, which is a mixture of clay, sand, rice straw, earth, stones and oyster shells.