上海开埠以后,外来人口增多,旅沪移民使得上海城市寺庙的数量和种类也日益繁多。与城市建成区扩散一致,寺庙分布由上海县城扩散到租界。基于20世纪20年代和40年代社会局两次调查档案的研究,可以发现:开埠以后,上海城市寺庙奉祀的神祗系统更加丰富,寺庙数量持续增长,并因移民数量、宗教政策的变化而有所缓急。城市建成区、移民的分布决定着新增寺庙的分布态势。移民成为开埠后上海城市新建寺庙的主要管理人,并以江浙籍居多。
From the opening on, the immigration of Shanghai city had been increasing, making the number and kinds of the temples been much more. With the urban--building area, the temples dis- tributed from the old town to foreign concessions. Based on the investigation of the Social bureau in the 20th 20s and 40s, we can conclude, the kinds of the temples were varied, the number of the tem- ples has been increasing, and be enslaved to the immigration and the policy. The urban--building area and the immigration made the distribution of the temples. And the immigrations had been the abbots of the temples, they were almost from Jiangsu and Zhejiang province.