Hindu temple
Sri Kandaswamy Temple
3, Jalan Tebing, Brickfields, 50470 Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur
Ancient Saiva Hindu temple with three ornate Gopuram gateways, modelled on a Jaffna shrine.
This guide to Sri Kandaswamy Temple in Kuala Lumpur opens on Christmas Eve 1890, when Tamil railway workers from Sri Lanka gathered in a Brickfields house and resolved to build a temple modeled exactly on the Nallur Kandaswamy Kovil they had left behind in Jaffna. You'll hear how the three towering Gopuram gateways rose between 1901 and 1909, and how the temple's first priest kept the daily rituals going through Japanese air raids in the 1940s. Look up at the painted deities crowding the Gopuram above you as you listen.
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