Community Services Division
As at March 2006, Tung Wah operated 134 community services centres:
- Elderly Services Centres: 41 centres
- Youth and Family Services Centres: 38 centres
- Rehabilitation Services: 38 centres
- Traditional Services: 17 centres, including:
- Funeral parlours:
- TWGHs Diamond Hill Funeral Parlour, 181 Po Kong Village Road, Kowloon - since 1977
- TWGHs International Funeral Parlour, 8 Cheong Hang Road, Hung Hom - since 1980
- Tung Wah Coffin Home, Cemeteries and Colombarium, 9 Sandy Bay Road - since 1899
- Temples and fortune-telling stalls:
- TWGHs Man Mo Temple, 124-126 Hollywood Road - since 1847.
- TWGHs Litt Shing Kung, 128 Hollywood Road - since 1847
- Kwun Yum Temple, 400 Shatin Pass Road, Tsz Wan Shan, Kowloon - since 1853
- TWGHs Kwong Fook Tsz, 40 Tai Ping Shan Street - since 1856
- Hung Shing Temple, Wan Chai, 129 Queen's Road East - since 1860 (The management of the Temple has been delegated to the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals by the Chinese Temples Committee since pre-war times)
- Tin Hau Temple, Temple Street/Public Square Street, Yau Ma Tei - since 1865
- Fook Tak Tsz, Temple Street/Public Square Street, Yau Ma Tei - since 1865
- Shea Tan, Temple Street/Public Square Street, Yau Ma Tei - since 1865
- Shing Wong Temple, Temple Street/Public Square Street, Yau Ma Tei - since 1972
- The School, Temple Street/Public Square Street, Yau Ma Tei - since 1972
- Hung Shing Temple, 58 Fuk Tsun Street, Kowloon - since 1881 (The temple was moved and rebuilt at the present site in 1930, and has since been managed by the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals.)
- Shui Yuet Kung, 90 Shantung Street, Kowloon - since 1884
- Wong Tai Sin fortune-telling and oblation arcade, Lung Cheung Road, in front of Wong Tai Sin Temple, Kowloon - since 1956 (161 soothsayers' stalls and 40 temple goods stalls)
- Commemoration hall:
- Virtue Court, 130 Hollywood Road - since 1993
- Funeral parlours:
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