Fa Hui Park | |
Native Name: | 花墟公園 |
Native Name Lang: | zh |
Map: | Hong Kong |
Coords: | 22.328°N 114.174°W |
Type: | Urban park |
Location: | Sham Shui Po, Kowloon |
Manager: | Leisure and Cultural Services Department |
Open: | All year from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. |
Fa Hui Park is a park located north of Boundary Street, in Mong Kok, Kowloon, Hong Kong. It occupies .[1] It is one of the sites where a Lunar New Year Fair is held every year.
There is a community garden in the park. Participants of "Community Garden Programme" are allowed to grow crops and ornamental plants in the community garden of Fa Hui Park; they are also permitted to take the harvest home afterwards.[2]
Before Fa Hui Park was built, 8,000 squatters lived there. On 1 November 1955, a disastrous fire devastated over 400 huts, killed four persons and left over 6,000 people homeless. On 22 October 1956, another fire made a further 2,000 people homeless. After accommodating the victims at various resettlement estates in Kowloon, the Government built Fa Hui Park there.[3]