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Modern · Buddhist · Singapore
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.