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文山堂邱公司是福建省漳州府海澄县新江社龙山堂邱公司的分支，由海墘角五房支组成，早在1878年已经建成了坐落在海墘新路的祠堂。

文山堂的建筑属殖民地时代的一种混合体，结合了闽式寺庙的单殿单拜亭及槟岛本土的初期洋楼而成。文山堂正身为重楼，空间格局为中轴对称的五开间单殿单拜亭式，殿前为三开间的凸规拜亭，立在半层高的台基之上，周边以铁花栏杆围护，正面与侧边带有楼梯。从拜亭至大殿是另一半层，由一座开花岗岩大石梯衔接。

拜亭的屋顶为歇山顶，铺板瓦及筒瓦，正殿的硬山顶，屋面呈曲面，铺俯仰瓦。拜亭和正殿的正脊皆作燕尾翘脊，脊上饰硬团龙隐，脊堵则饰剪黏，有凤凰、牡丹、麒麟、花草、鸟兽等等。

文山堂邱公司经久失修，终于2014年推动修复计划，委托文思古建公司全面承修文山堂，工程于2016年尾竣工。

Boon San Tong Khoo Kongsi is one of the sectional groups from Leong San Tong Khoo Kongsi. The branch, formed by five smaller branches, built a double-storey ancestral hall at Victoria Street in 1878.

The ancestrall hall of Boon San Tong which combines the basic configuration of a Hokkien temple and the bungalows in early Penang, has a main hall with prayer pavilion and a symmetrical plan of five bays. The three-bayed prayer pavilion is erected on a half-storey stone plinth and fronts the main hall. It is surrounded with wrought iron handrails but made accessible from the front and the sides. From the pavilion up to the main hall is another half-storey upward tread, linked by a grand granite stone staircase.

The prayer pavilion has a traditional Chinese hip-and-gable roof. It is finished with curved and semi-cylindrical terra-cotta tiles. The main hall has a tripartite gable roof, where the central bays have a higher roof than the side roofs, finished with curved tiles. Its roof surfaces are symmetrically curved to the sides. The central ridges of the prayer pavilion and main hall are constructed in the fashion of ‘swallow tail’ curved ridges, which themselves are decorated with exuberant porcelain shard works consisted of auspicious creatures, plants and animals.

Boon San Tong was left in dilapidation for a long time and was finally brought to life again in 2014, when Wensi Heritage had the opportunity to be involved in the restoration of the temple. The restoration was later completed in 2016.