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Sri Veeramakaliamman Temple
Little India, Singapore · 1.3079°, 103.8525°
Kali (Veeramakaliamman)ModernDravidian
Sacred since
1855 CE
first attestation / structure
Standing structure
1881 (shrine from 1855)
Modern
History & significance
A Little India temple to the fierce form of Kali, begun as a shrine by Bengali labourers in 1855 and built as a temple in 1881, following South Indian Tamil rather than northeastern Indian conventions; during the Japanese occupation it sheltered and fed more than twenty destitute people a night through the air raids.