The property problems among Taiwan’s religious groups have existed for a long time. The illegal building and land misuse are the most significant in between. These issues became difficult subjects of debate for the governmental governance and religious organizations. However, there is a little academic literature exploring these topics. Taiwan is a nation with variety of religions. Religious buildings spread around the island. Practically, temple building legalization is the most important among building and land properties for Buddhist and Taoist organizations. Even some well-known and historical temples are no exception. Temple construction and land use problems are complicated and related to various administrative fields. These long-term topics are unique in Taiwan compared to other countries all of the world. Moreover, the government is working hard to resolve these problems, and there are only 0.3% of temples legalized to date. Most of the temples are still misusing land and buildings more or less. Based on this background, this study has collecting sixty seven of these cases by integrating issues and research. Then, these categories of misuses are weighted by Hierarchy scoring method (HSM) and Multicriteria Decision Making, (MCDM) method, with Chi-square Test. According to category weights, the strategies to cope with building and land misusing problems are proposed in policy, legal, religious and social dimensions. These strategies have taken land control, religious property management and legitimate system into consideration.
