Mo PaiArchive

City · West Java, Indonesia

Cirebon

The West Java port in the archive's photograph of a Chinese temple.

The Keraton Kasepuhan in Cirebon: the red-brick gateway and pavilions of the Javanese royal compound.
The Keraton Kasepuhan at Cirebon. The town appears in this archive because a photograph taken in one of its Chinese temples illustrates the community the lineage is said to have travelled through. Kondephy · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

A port on the north coast of West Java, spelled Cheribon in the colonial period. The photograph this archive uses of worshippers in a Chinese temple was taken there, and is held by the Tropenmuseum.

It appears here as an illustration rather than as a claim: nobody places any part of the Mo Pai story in Cirebon specifically. What the picture shows is the kind of place the story assumes — a working Chinese temple in a Javanese town, of which there were many.

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