"Most of Taiwan's nearly 9,000 temples are best known for their cult, but this is the only one that is famous for its art." Cheng Yu-ts'ai, secretary of the Sanhsia Pure Water Patriarch temple reconstruction committee, proudly boasts that nowhere else has a temple with such fine carvings as this one, which is still under construction after 40 years and at a cost of over NT $ 120 million.
「台灣大小近九千座廟中，多以信仰為主，只有這座以藝術聞名」，三峽祖師廟重建委員會秘書鄭有財十分驕傲地表示，其他地方沒有一座廟雕得這麼精緻，而且修了四十多年、投入了一億二千多萬元，還在繼續修葺。