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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 04/06/2026 16:14:00

Rising in tiers of deep red and gold above the streets of Chinatown, the Buddha Tooth Relic Temple and Museum is one of the most visited religious sites in Singapore, a richly decorated temple built to house what is venerated as a sacred tooth of the Buddha. Opened in 2007 on the site of an old market lane, the temple was the vision of its founding abbot, who set out to create a home worthy of the precious relic and a centre of Buddhist culture in the heart of the city, raising the enormous cos...