Dharma Bakti Temple
Oldest Chinese temple in the old Chinatown, founded for the goddess of mercy and rebuilt after fire.
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This guide to Dharma Bakti Temple in Jakarta's Glodok Chinatown starts with one worshipper's words in March twenty fifteen, spoken in the courtyard where you are standing, two weeks after she had prayed here for Chinese New Year. It follows her family's plans for Cap Go Meh, the night that closes the festival, and the plate of food Java's Chinese families eat on it. Kwee Hoen, the officer who raised a pavilion to Kwan Im here in sixteen fifty, turns up too. Best heard near the incense burners facing the main hall.
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