Thean Hou Temple

This guide to Thean Hou Temple in Kuala Lumpur begins in tenth-century Fujian, with a young girl named Lin Mo whose spirit reached her father and brothers through a storm at sea. It follows how that story grew into the worship of Mazu, protector of sailors, and how Hainanese migrants carried her name across the South China Sea to a Kuala Lumpur association founded in 1889. You'll hear what it took that community decades later to give her a proper home on this hilltop. Look closely at the dragon pillars and painted eaves as the guide explains what they were built to say.