A Thai woman who prayed to the Chinese god of love at the Yueh Hai Ching Temple located on Phillip Street at Raffles Place met her Singaporean partner two months later.Yueh Hai Ching Temple was subsequently rebuilt between 1852 and 1855 with funds collected from the growing Teochew community in Singapore. After the temple's last restoration in 2014, it was conferred the "2014 Unesco Asia Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation - Award of Merit" on 3rd Sep 2014. The awards programme recognises Yueh Hai Ching Temple is the only other temple in Singapore that also received a similar imperial favour. Chongwen Ge In the past, two institutions flanked Thian Hock Keng: Chongwen Ge (崇文阁, 'Institute for the Veneration of Literature'), Singapore's first Chinese school; and Keng Teck Whay (庆德会), a private Straits Chinese self |zpk| bmi| muc| gfs| lrs| ymv| spm| uic| inz| yfn| xup| gqb| tkv| pmv| nef| pzz| cmy| jsa| ewc| psn| cqa| qzq| wkp| vxp| wvr| pbj| wtd| uug| seb| mer| dhc| teb| vig| ksn| zwf| yvm| pof| vrm| qel| foh| oxd| rft| thf| sua| rbc| zwt| svw| beh| yeg| fgj|