Kheng Hock Keong Temple , located on the corner of Sintodan Street and Strand Road in Latha Township

Latha Township

Latha Township is located in the western part of downtown Yangon, and shares borders with Lanmadaw township in the west, Pabedan township in the east, Seikkan township and Yangon river in the south, and Dagon township in the north. It consists of ten wards and is home to three primary schools, one...

, Yangon

Yangon

Yangon is a former capital of Burma and the capital of Yangon Region . Although the military government has officially relocated the capital to Naypyidaw since March 2006, Yangon, with a population of over four million, continues to be the country's largest city and the most important commercial...

 (Rangoon), Burma (Myanmar), is the largest and oldest Chinese

Overseas Chinese

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 Buddhist and Taoist

Taoism

Taoism refers to a philosophical or religious tradition in which the basic concept is to establish harmony with the Tao , which is the mechanism of everything that exists...

 temple dedicated to the Chinese goddess Mazu

Mazu

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 in Yangon. It was originally built as a wooden temple in 1861 and completed in 1863. A new brick building was completed in 1903, costing over 153,000 rupees. Kheng Hock Keong is maintained by a Hokkien Chinese

Burmese Chinese

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 clan association. The temple attracts mostly Hokkien and Hakka

Hakka people

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 worshipers, while the other temple in Latha Township, called the Guanyin Gumiao Temple

Guanyin Gumiao Temple

Guanyin Gumiao Temple is one of two major Chinese temples located in Latha Township in Yangon's Chinatown. It was founded by the Cantonese community of Yangon in 1823, but was destroyed by a fire in December I855, and subsequently rebuilt in 1864, with two additional brick buildings to the side...

, attracts Cantonese

Cantonese people

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 worshipers.

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See also

• Fushan Si Temple
  Fushan Si Temple
  Fushan Si Temple , located on Kaba Aye Pagoda Road in Bahan Township, Yangon, is a Hokkien Chinese temple founded in January 1875 by overseas Chinese with ancestry from Anxi County in Fujian Province. The temple is managed by the Kheng Hock Keong Temple in downtown Yangon. Fushan Si is dedicated to...
  
  
• Guanyin Gumiao Temple
  Guanyin Gumiao Temple
  Guanyin Gumiao Temple is one of two major Chinese temples located in Latha Township in Yangon's Chinatown. It was founded by the Cantonese community of Yangon in 1823, but was destroyed by a fire in December I855, and subsequently rebuilt in 1864, with two additional brick buildings to the side...
  
  
• Long Shan Tang Temple
  Long Shan Tang Temple
  Long Shan Tang Temple is a Hokkien Chinese clan temple located on Anawrahta Road in Latha Township, part of Yangon's Chinatown. It was founded by members of the Tseng and Khoo clans from Fujian province in 1877. The temple is dedicated to ancestor worship.-See also:*Fushan Si Temple*Guanyin...