Place of worship
Buddhist Maha Vihara
123, Jalan Berhala, Brickfields, 50470 Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur
Theravada Buddhist temple and community center, host to Malaysia's oldest annual Wesak procession.
This guide to the Buddhist Maha Vihara in Kuala Lumpur follows two monks who arrived from British Ceylon in 1895 with no temple and no land, and the unlikely alliance of a Sinhalese community, a British colonial engineer, and a Chinese Kapitan merchant who together got one built. It traces how this courtyard grew into a rallying point for Malaysian Buddhism through the 1960s. Listen for the name behind the temple's largest single donation.
Audio guides are written and narrated by AI.