Lantern slide of Interior of a Joss House. A Shenist temple or Chinese folk temple is a place for worshiping the variety of indigenous Chinese shen (deities, saints, ancestors and supernatural beings) from Chinese folk religion (Shenism) and Chinese mythology. They can be distinguished into miao, called 'joss houses', 'deity houses' or simply 'temples' in English, and ci, called 'ancestral halls' or simply 'temples' in English. Part of Box 159 Pekin, slide no 11