The essay attempts to explore the intertextual relationship between religion and community from a socio-cultural perspective in the context of 19^th century Western artistic representations of a Chinese Daoist Temple, the Ma Kok Temple, in Macau. The Ma Kok Temple (The A-Ma Temple) is part of the Historic Center of Macau inscribed into the UNESCO World Heritage Sites list in 2005 for its historicity, religiosity and sociality. It was not only a place for worshipping, but also a site of the Portuguese’ first landing on the fishing village in the 16^th century. Being situated off the southern coast of China it had been a prosperous place of East-West trading, cultural exchange and living interaction. In those 19^th century paintings cited for discussion, ordinary folk’s daily lives nearby and inside the Temple were depicted, which presented realistic scenes of the “sacred” juxtaposing/blending with the “secular”. The essay discusses, with illustration of seven paintings by those Western artists lingering then in Macau, in what ways their Ma Kok Temple paintings reveal a unique relationship between religion and community -- that of “sacred space” juxtaposing/blending with “secular” space.