Goddess of Mercy Temple, Penang
Good to know
- Best time to go
- Year-round; Guanyin festival days on the 19th of certain lunar months bring opera performances and heavy crowds
- Budget
- $
- Accessibility
- limited
- Coordinates
- Open in maps
George Town's oldest Chinese temple, raised in the early 1800s by Hokkien and Cantonese settlers and dedicated to Guanyin, the bodhisattva of compassion. Granite pillars entwined with carved dragons frame a forecourt that fills with incense smoke, joss-stick sellers and worshippers on feast days. Its position on Pitt Street places it at the head of the city's so-called Street of Harmony, alongside mosque, church and Hindu temple.
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