Tang dynasty–style temple housing religious relics, with ornate rooms & a tranquil rooftop garden. Both a museum and a place of worship, visitors are free to explore the temple’s repository of relics and cultural artifacts. We recommend taking a quick breather at the temple’s tranquil rooftop garden, with its distinctive pagoda and prayer wheel.
If you look closely at the Buddha Tooth Relic Temple and Museum located on the corner of South Bridge Road and Sago Lane in Chinatown, you’d be right in suspecting that it’s not as ancient-looking as you might expect temples to be. That’s because it actually only opened on Vesak Day 2007, after months and pages of design submissions (which were either too contemporary, too Southern-Chinese, too dull-coloured, and so on) and two years of construction work. The final chosen building design encompasses the architectural style of the Tang dynasty, with green, red and gold paint to make it stand out against the urban environment. The Buddha Tooth in question was allegedly discovered in 1980 by an abbot in Myanmar within a collapsed gold stupa, and presented to Venerable Shi Fa Zhao, founder of the Buddha Tooth Relic Temple, in 1992.
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