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Buddha Tooth Relic Temple and Museum

Chinatown, Singapore · 1.2816°, 103.8440°

Buddha (sacred tooth relic); halls to Maitreya, Guanyin, Manjushri and SamantabhadraModernTang-period Chinese Buddhist

Sacred since

2007 CE

first attestation / structure

Standing structure

completed 2007

Modern

History & significance

A temple and museum complex on South Bridge Road in Chinatown, completed in 2007 to enshrine a relic venerated as a tooth of the Buddha; its abbot Ven. Shi Fa Zhao rejected nine earlier proposals before settling on a northern Chinese design drawn from Tang-dynasty Buddhist architecture, with Japanese and Tibetan touches in some rooms.

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