Title: Bao Chi Gong
Description: "Pao Chia Kheng"
Description: "Pao Chia Kheng"
javewu - July 11, 2006 09:25 AM (GMT)
This picture shows the main Altar in the Temple. The main Deity that the Temple dedicated is "Kai Zhang Sheng Wang", which is a well-known General during the Tang Dynasty Era.
javewu - July 17, 2006 12:00 PM (GMT)
Short History of the Temple:
On the south side of the Singapore River is the ornate Tan Si Chong Su Temple (Bao Chi Gong), dating from 1876. This Hokkien place of worship with well-preserved carvings, ancestral tablets and a delightful rooftop of dancing dragons and ceramic flowers. The temple was built in 1878 by Tan Kim Cheng and Tan Beng Swee, a father and son from China's Fujian Province, as a gathering place for the Tan ancestral clan. With its decorative roof, guardian dragons and lions, and painted wooden doors, this is a particularly fine example of temple design, sadly now overshadowed by the Central Expressway (CTE).
On the south side of the Singapore River is the ornate Tan Si Chong Su Temple (Bao Chi Gong), dating from 1876. This Hokkien place of worship with well-preserved carvings, ancestral tablets and a delightful rooftop of dancing dragons and ceramic flowers. The temple was built in 1878 by Tan Kim Cheng and Tan Beng Swee, a father and son from China's Fujian Province, as a gathering place for the Tan ancestral clan. With its decorative roof, guardian dragons and lions, and painted wooden doors, this is a particularly fine example of temple design, sadly now overshadowed by the Central Expressway (CTE).