中国北方最早的妈祖庙——长岛显应宫

Changdao Xianying Palace——The Earliest Mazu Temple in North China

世界上有5000多座妈祖庙。长岛庙岛显应宫（妈祖庙）始建于北宋宜和四年（公元1122年）,是中国北方修建最早、规模最大、影响最广的妈祖庙,也是世界重要的妈祖官庙之一,享＂天妃北庭＂＂北海神乡＂之誉。妈祖文化与信仰传承千年,有＂南有湄洲,北有长岛＂之说,

There are over 5,000 Mazu Temples in the world.Among them Xianying PalacefMazu Temple) in Changdao's Miao Island,which was started in the fourth year of the Xuanhc Reign in the North Song Dynasty(1122),is the earliest and grandest Mazu Temple with broadest influence in north China.It is also one of the most significant Mazu Temples in the world and honored as 'the Northern Hall for the Queen of Heaven' and 'the Fairyland of North Sea.' The Mazu cultural and faith has been handed down for over a thousand of years.The Changdao Mazu Temple ranks with the Mazu Temple in Fujian's Meizhou Island as 'Mazu Temples in the North and the South,' just as people say about 'Meizhou in the south and Changdao in the north.'