Burmese Buddhist Temple (Singapore)

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The Burmese Buddhist Temple (also known as Mahā Sāsanā Raṃsī; ; ) is the oldest Theravada institution and the only Burmese Buddhist temple of its kind in Singapore.Ong, "Founding of Theravada Institutions", pp. 57—58. Founded in 1875, the temple moved from its original Kinta Road premises to Tai Gin Road off Ah Hood Road in Novena in 1988. The temple houses the largest pure white marble statue of the Buddha outside Myanmar, and has become a religious landmark for Burmese and Singaporean devotees to make merit and take part in merit-sharing activities alike. Read more on Wikipedia

type: monastery
date from: 1875

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