Featuring layers of rooftops with double eaves in the gable-on-hip style, this palatial structure is patterned after the Forbidden City in Beijing and surrounded by a moat. All the buildings on the temple premises look just like ancient palaces. To the left side of the temple stand two "Boundary Stones for the Luermen Shengmu Temple." Erected during the Qing Dynasty to mark the boundaries among the three trade guilds in Tainan (or Fucheng Sanjiao), the two cold hard slates tell stories from the prosperous past of Mazu Temple.