Beiding Niangniang Temple (北顶娘娘庙)

Peking · China · Historisk byggnad · Scare 3/5

When the diggers began tearing down the temple gate in 2004, a black whirlwind wrecked the Olympic site – the temple stood untouched, and the aquatics stadium was moved a hundred metres.

The Ming-era Beiding Niangniang Temple, dedicated to the goddess Bixia Yuanjun, was one of five 'peak temples' guarding Beijing to the north. Ahead of the 2008 Olympics it was to be demolished to make way for the Water Cube aquatics stadium. On 27 August 2004, just as workers began taking down the temple gate, the sky darkened and a black whirlwind tore straight through the site: site huts were overturned, sheet metal and fencing flung high into the air, steel flagpoles bent double, and more than forty workers were injured – two are said to have died. The temple at the storm's centre stood untouched. After further uncanny accidents the demolition was abandoned, and the Water Cube was redesigned and shifted a hundred metres north. In Beijing it is still told that the goddess herself put her foot down on the city's central axis.

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Beiding Niangniang Temple (北顶娘娘庙) is in Peking, China.