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Brooklyn Storefront Houses Of Worship

Amateur photos of 100 storefront houses of worship in Brooklyn, NY. For background, visit http://weblog.rudayday.com/archives/001110.html#001110

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Added: April 09, 2003
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  • Rudayday blank Premium user United States (Private)blank
    4 years 2 months ago
    I wondered if I had this wrong. Seems I did. I just made the association with the Taoist identity. Perhaps I will swap this one out one day. There was no shortage of shots from Brooklyn Chinatown I could use.

    Thanks for spotting this.
  • Adam Stanhopeblank (Private)blank
    4 years 2 months ago
    This one really isn't a "house of worship."

    Overseas Chinese "benevolent associations" were organizations formed to provide quasi-governmental services to immigrant Chinese communities throughout the world. A Chinese immigrant from a certain province in China or speaking a certain dialect of Chinese might find a particular benevolent association in his new city that caters to the Chinese sub-group he hails from. The benevolent association might be able to find him a place to stay temporarily and a job somewhere (often at another member's restaurant) to get him started in his new country.
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