SIN SZE SI TA TEMPLE

@ CHINATOWN/ PETALING STREET
 

 

URBAN EXPLORING/ HERITAGE • AUG 2019 • KUALA LUMPUR

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I may have lost count of the number of chinese temple that I have visited here in Kuala Lumpur, but there is nothing quite like Sin Sze Si Ya Temple. Befitting of its title as the oldest Taoist temple in the city, it was built by Yap Ah Loy in 1883, and has since stood at its location till this day. The surreal atmosphere of the temple is best appreciated on a sunny afternoon, where shafts of light streaming down from its age-old windows in the courtyard come to life against the rising incense smoke from the altars below.

 

 

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