Yayasan Vihara Dharma Jaya TOASEBIO
Chinese temple rebuilt in 1751 after a colonial burning, now a protected heritage site in Chinatown.
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This guide to Vihara Dharma Jaya Toasebio in Jakarta's Glodok Chinatown starts with the women who wash its gods by hand each year before Chinese New Year. It reaches back to the colonial government that once burned the temple, and to the nine people who set up the foundation that runs it in nineteen eighty-three. Best heard standing before the altars, then carried out into the food lanes nearby.
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