Buddhist temple in Singapore’s Chinatown

No visit to SE Asia should go without at least some exploration of a nation’s temples. As mentioned in an earlier post Singapore has a number of ethnicities having their own spaces of cultural significance inside and outside the city domain. Chinatown was on my list anyway and kindly provided me with one to see called the Buddha Tooth Relic Temple and Museum and a chance to enjoy a vegetarian lunch with monks on the upper floor. As you can see like all modern cities the original cultural structures have to share space with and sometimes dwarfed by the steel, glass and concrete syndrome.

It belongs to the Chinese Tang Dynasty 618-907 that superseded the Roman Empire to become the most powerful and prosperous country in the world - mmmm looks like history may be repeating itself here enter stage left The Dragon. The decorations in the temple are extraordinary and testimony to the patience a skilled artisan requires.