Kheng Hock Keong

Kheng Hock Keong
Kheng Hock Keong in 2013
Religion
Affiliation	Chinese folk religion, Mazuism
Location
Location	426-432 Strand Road, Yangon
Country	Myanmar
Shown within Myanmar
Geographic coordinates	16°46′21.32″N 96°8′55.27″E
Architecture
Completed	1863; 162 years ago (1863)

Kheng Hock Keong
Traditional Chinese	慶福宮
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Qìngfú Gōng Southern Min Hokkien POJ Khèng-hok-kiong
Burmese name
Burmese	ခိန့်ဟုတ်ဗုဒ္ဓဘာသာဘုရားကျောင်း

The Kheng Hock Temple, also known as the Kheng Hock Keong (慶福宮), is the largest and oldest temple to the Chinese sea-goddess Mazu in Yangon, Burma. It is located on the corner of Sintodan Street and Strand Road in Latha Township. Kheng Hock Keong is maintained by a Hokkien Chinese clan association.[1] The temple attracts mostly Hokkien and Hakka worshipers, while the other temple in Latha Township, called the Guanyin Gumiao Temple, attracts Cantonese worshipers.

Establishment

It was originally built as a wooden temple in 1861 and completed in 1863, built in the Fujian style, on a tax-exempt plot of land granted by the British authorities.[2][3] The founding Kheng Hock Keong Trust Committee was composed of Rangoon's largest Hokkien clans, representing the Chan-Khoo, Lim, Tan, Yeo, Lee, and Su clans.[3] At the temple's founding, the primary deity was Guanyin. A new brick building was completed in 1903, costing over 153,000 rupees.[2]

Gallery

• 
  Kheng Hock Keong after World War II, in 1945.
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  Kheng Hock Keong at 2013 Chinese New Year
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  Kheng Hock Keong at night
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  Courtyard
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  Entrance
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  Main Shrine of Mazu

References

1. "Kheng Hock Keong".
2. Chen, Yi-Sein (1966). "The Chinese in Rangoon during the 18th and 19th Centuries". Essays Offered to G. H. Luce by His Colleagues and Friends in Honour of His Seventy-Fifth Birthday. Volume 1: Papers on Asian History, Religion, Languages, Literature, Music Folklore, and Anthropology. 23. Artibus Asiae Publishers: 107–111. doi:10.2307/1522640. JSTOR 1522640.
3. Li, Yi (2017-02-25). Chinese in Colonial Burma: A Migrant Community in A Multiethnic State. Springer. ISBN 9781137519009.

See also

• Fushan Temple
• Guanyin Gumiao Temple
• Long Shan Tang Temple
• Qianliyan & Shunfeng'er