Sri Thendayuthapani Temple
5 Tank Rd, Singapore 238065
Phone : +65 6737 9393
The Sri Thendayuthapani Temple, better known as the Chettiars’ Temple or the Tank Road temple, is one of the Singapore Hindu community’s most important monuments. It was gazetted as a national monument on 21 October 2014. It was built in 1859 by Nattukottai Chettiar community.
This Hindu temple, dedicated to the six-faced Lord Subramaniam (Lord Muruga), is at its most active during the festival of Thaipusam. It is here that hundreds of pilgrims, their bodies pierced by hooks, spears and spiked steel structures called kavadi, end their Kavadu Attam procession from the Sri Srinivasa Perumal Temple on Serangoon Road. This act of penance and propitiation is carried out by devotees in gratitude to Lord Subramanian or Murugan, son of Lord Siva, for granting their prayers.
Facilities at the temple
Knowing the needs of the Singapore Hindu Community, the temple has a beautifully decorated and spacious wedding hall for conducting marriages and such functions.
Some highlights:
Fully renovated and Air-Conditioned Wedding Hall ( called as Kalyana Mandapam in Tamil)
One of the biggest Wedding Hall in Singapore
Beautifully decorated Alangara Mandapam
Seating Capacity of the hall is around 500
Capacity of the dining hall is around 300
Ample parking facilities
Temple Priests available for reciting Hindu Religious Mantras
Temple Religious Music is provided
Hindu Religious Utensils used in wedding rituals are provided
Centrally located and easily accessible from all parts of Singapore.
Festivals
Sri Thendayuthapani Temple celebrates various festivals with pomp and splendour and every year six important festivals are celebrated, which are: ThaiPusam, LetchaArchanai for Meenakshi Amman & Durgai Amman, Navarathri, Skantha Shashti and Thiru Karthigai. Of which Thaipusam is a famous festival in South East Asia that attracts thousands of Hindu Devotees and hundreds of tourists to Singapore.
Source : Wikipedia
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Reviews
Opening hours : 08.00AM to 12.00Noon and 05.30 to 08.30PM
Getting there : 5 minutes walk from Dhoby Gaut MRT
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