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“The Coffin Home demonstrates excellence in conservation practiceapplied to a group of historical buildings. By restoring the historical buildingswith traditional local knowledge and exceptional conservation techniques,the Coffin Home is successful in preserving a significant architecturaltopology in the Asia-Pacific region, and thereby protecting an importantchapter of the history of the overseas Chinese.”

“The project was praised for preserving a unique building typology andan important cultural institution which reflects the evolving social history ofHong Kong. The complex includes a range of building traditions spanning fromvernacular Chinese architecture to modern buildings.”

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The Tung Wah Coffin Home, owned and managed by the Tung Wah Group ofHospitals, has won the Award of Honour in the Heritage Preservation and ConservationAwards offered by the Antiquities & Monuments Office under the Government ofthe Special Administrative Region as well as the Award of Merit in the 2005 Asia-Pacific Heritage Awards offered by the United Nations Educational, Scientific andCultural Organization (UNESCO) in recognition of the success of its large-scalerestoration project.

The whole compound has an area of about 6,050 square metres consisting ofgroups of building constructed in various periods of time that include gateways, apagoda, a garden, 91 rooms and 2 halls. Consequently, different sections of the CoffinHome bear different architectural styles, ranging from traditional Chinese andvernacular architecture, modern style of the west to a hybrid of both.

A coffin home was established by the Man Mo Temple for the public near theSlaughter House in Kennedy Town on Hong Kong Island dating back to 1875. It wasthen transferred to Tung Wah Hospital (Tung Wah Group of Hospitals' first hospital),and was rebuilt near Sandy Bay on Hong Kong Island in 1899. The compound, thenformally named “Tung Wah Coffin Home”, has borne witness to the evolving changesin the territory's social and cultural history. From late 19th century to early 20thcentury, tens of thousands of people from Mainland China went to other countrieslike South, North American or South East Asian countries in search of jobs. Many ofthem died abroad and their deceased bodies were transported back to their birthplaceson the Mainland for proper burial. This was made possible by the facilities and servicesoffered by the Coffin Home. Temporary depository of coffin was also made availablewhen the bereaved wished to look for a better burial place for the dead.

The major restoration project to the Tung Wah Coffin Home, started in 2003 in2 phases spanning a total of 11 months, was carried out with the objectives of restoringthe whole compound to its traditional architectural appearance, which bears distinctivefeatures across different sections, and to bring the building clusters to meet modernsafety standards.

The restoration project has successfully preserved the Coffin Home as animportant heritage in Hong Kong that not only demonstrates Tung Wah’s philanthropicspirit and its role in the territory’s history, but also embraces the changes in cultureand burial customs of the Chinese community over the centuries.

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