Sri Thendayuthapani Temple

This guide to Sri Thendayuthapani Temple in Singapore follows the Nattukotai Chettiars, the Tamil merchant-bankers who built it in 1859 and turned Market Street into the city's informal lending hub for shopkeepers and hawkers colonial banks wouldn't serve. It traces how the temple grounds doubled as their Chamber of Commerce, and the 1983 gopuram tower raised above Tank Road. Listen for the story behind the forty-eight glass panels depicting Shiva's cosmic dance inside.