A school built inside living heritage monuments.
Zhongyi Elementary School was founded on April 1, 1940 as "Shiomi Public School" (汐見公學校), renamed Shiomi National School the following year. After 1945 the school was renamed several more times, becoming "Tainan City South District Third National School," then "Yuquan National School," and later "Fengjia National School" after a nearby road was renamed. In 1953, the school swapped campus sites with a Tainan municipal junior high, moving to its current site on Zhongyi Road and taking the name "Zhongyi National School." It became Zhongyi Elementary School in 1968 under the nine-year compulsory education reform. The campus is directly adjacent to the Tainan Confucius Temple.
忠義國小創校於1940年（昭和15年）4月1日，初名「汐見公學校」，隔年改稱汐見國民學校。戰後歷經多次更名，先後為「臺南市南區第三國民學校」、「育泉國民學校」，其後因鄰近道路改名而再改稱「奉化國民學校」。1953年與臺南市立某初中交換校地，遷至現今忠義路校址，並改名為「忠義國民學校」，1968年因應九年國民義務教育改制為「忠義國民小學」。校區緊鄰臺南孔廟。
What makes this school worth knowing.
🥋 An Auditorium That Was a Martial-Arts Hall
禮堂原為武德殿
The school's auditorium is the former Tainan Butokuden (臺南武德殿), a Japanese-era martial-arts hall, now a protected Tainan municipal historic monument still in active school use.
📚 A Library in a Former Shrine Office
圖書館原為神社事務所
The school's library occupies the former Tainan Shrine office building (臺南神社事務所), another protected historic monument absorbed into daily school life.
📸 A Draw for History Bloggers
在地文史部落客熱門造訪
The campus's two on-site heritage buildings make it a popular subject for local history and travel bloggers documenting Tainan's Japanese-era architecture.
⛩️ Neighbor to the Confucius Temple
緊鄰臺南孔廟
Directly adjacent to the Tainan Confucius Temple, the school sits at the heart of the old walled city's dense concentration of historic sites.
Two living monuments, one school.
Directly adjacent to the Tainan Confucius Temple, the school's auditorium and library occupy two protected Japanese-era heritage buildings — the former Butokuden martial-arts hall and the Tainan Shrine office — living monuments embedded in daily school life. See the Tainan county page for more on the region.
Find the school.
No. 2, Sec. 2, Zhongyi Rd., Zhongxi Dist., Tainan City, Taiwan
臺南市中西區忠義路二段2號
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