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Hiang Thian Siang Temple

TIME : 2016/2/17 15:00:36

This temple, rebuilt shortly after the fire of 1884, serves the Teochew congregation as a shrine to Shang Di (the Emperor of Heaven). On the 15th day of the Hungry Ghosts Festival (mid-August or early September) a ceremony is held here in which offerings of food, prayer, incense and paper money are made to appease the spirits, blessed by a priest and then burned in a dramatic bonfire.