A historic building at the heart of Jiala.
Wanhua Junior High School was founded on August 1, 1958, in the Jiala (加蚋仔) area of southern Wanhua — an old market-garden hamlet south of the walled Bangka settlement. Its 1968-built activity center, with distinctive A-shaped slanted columns and flying-buttress supports creating a wide unsupported span unusual for 1960s Taiwan, was designated a Taipei municipal historic building in December 2019. The six-lane Xizang Road running past the school's front gate was once an open drainage canal known as the "No. 3 Special Drainage Ditch" (特三號排水溝), covered over in the 1970s. Today the school enrolls roughly 1,900 students across its three grades.
萬華國中創立於民國47年（1958年）8月1日，座落於萬華南側加蚋仔——舊時萬華城牆聚落以南的農園聚落。校內1968年落成的活動中心，以「A」字型斜柱與飛扶壁支撐營造出當年少見的大跨距無柱空間，於2019年12月獲指定為臺北市市定古蹟。校門前六線道的西藏路，前身其實是一條「特三號排水溝」，於1970年代加蓋成為道路。目前全校三個年級約有1,900名學生。
What makes this school worth knowing.
🏛️ A Historic Activity Center
市定古蹟活動中心
Built in 1968 with distinctive A-shaped slanted columns and flying-buttress supports, the school's activity center was designated a Taipei municipal historic building in December 2019 — a rare architectural landmark on a school campus.
🛣️ A Road That Was Once a Canal
昔日的排水溝道路
The six-lane Xizang Road out front was originally an open drainage canal, covered over in the 1970s — a small but telling piece of Wanhua's urbanization history.
🌾 Rooted in Old Jiala
扎根加蚋仔舊聚落
The school sits in Jiala, the historic market-garden hamlet south of the walled Bangka settlement, reflecting Wanhua's agrarian-turned-urban riverside history.
South of old Bangka, in the Jiala fields.
Wanhua Junior High sits in Jiala (加蚋仔), the old farming and market-garden hamlet that lay just south of the walled Bangka (艋舺) settlement, also known as Monga. While Jiala had its own agrarian identity, it always looked north toward Bangka's core — anchored by Longshan Temple (龍山寺) and the adjoining Herb Lane (青草巷) — for trade, worship, and community life, a relationship that still shapes how this end of Wanhua connects to the district's historic heart.
Find the school.
No. 201, Xizang Rd., Wanhua District, Taipei City, Taiwan
臺北市萬華區西藏路201號
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