The Chao Tien Temple has thus established a "kinship alliance" with the Meichou temple and paid for two granite statues of Matsu, measuring over 16 meters high. Another statue has already been completed and taken to Peikang where it will be raised onto the newly built tower of the Chao Tien Temple during its tricentennial festivities next year.
於是朝天宮和湄洲媽結下「至親盟」，出資建造兩尊十六公尺的花崗石大神像，一尊立於湄洲祖廟；另一尊也已完工運抵北港，將於明年朝天宮建廟三百周年慶時，立於新落成大樓上。