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Combined Temples in Singapore: Histories and Contexts 《新加坡聯合宮的歷史背景》

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Oct 22

Combined Temples in Singapore: Histories and Contexts 《新加坡聯合宮的歷史背景》

This ICOMOS SG public talk by Dr Lai Chee Kien and Shawn Teo will discuss the Combined Temple as a new architectural hybrid in Singapore.

By ICOMOS Singapore

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Sat, 22 October 2022, 16:00 – 18:00 Singapore Standard Time Singapore Time

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Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre, Recital Studio, Level 6 新加坡华族文化中心, 演奏室, 六楼 1 Straits Boulevard Singapore, 018906 Singapore

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Singapore’s population is made up of about 75% of overseas Chinese ethnic groups that have migrated there since the 19th century. Over time, Chinese communities brought over folk deities and practices that were manifested as hundreds of village temples dotted across the island’s original landscape – in the 1960s, these farms adjacent to these villages supplied half of the island’s vegetable needs. Singapore’s reputation as a present-day global city is also premised on transforming the same land. As the island-city-state implemented its post-war UN-advised masterplan to develop the city and infrastructure, the villages and farms were redeveloped and their former residents were rehoused in high-rise public housing, where 80% of the island’s population now live.

The long-established villages and communities precipitated a problem: religious buildings and communal structures constructed within the old villages were not similarly relocated by the government. Unlike city temple complexes, these less elaborate community temples often include other medical, spiritual and martial arts practices besides the syncretic mix of Taoism, Confucianism, and Buddhism.

Several temple committees with different pantheons eventually leased government land to jointly build their temples within a shared compound, but with clearly demarcated spaces, in 1972. Such a form was unprecedented, and was later dubbed a “Combined Temple”. In time, the Urban Redevelopment Authority permitted this new temple typology and even encouraged temples facing this same conundrum to consider combining with other temples. Between 1974 and 2012, 65 Combined Temples were established as amalgams from hundreds that were once scattered across Singapore.

This public talk will discuss the Combined Temple as a new architectural hybrid whose resilience, twice moved (from Southern China and their original locales) had emerged despite state efforts to simplify religious landscapes. Distanced from their previous congregations and now competing with adjacent neighbours, they activated new spatial and programmatic strategies to address these new challenges.

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