Sri Murugan Hill Temple
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The Sri Murugan Hill Temple, located on Upper Bukit Timah Road, has a history spanning over 60 years.
According to the temple’s own account, Shanmugam, a plumber with the Royal Air Force (RAF), discovered a small divine structure resembling a shrine dedicated to Sri Muneeswaran, at Lam San Village in the Chua Chu Kang area. In 1962, with the support of villagers and RAF employees, the first prayer was offered. By 1969, the modest temple had been granted a temporary permit. Around this time, following a mystic experience claimed by a leader of the temple and the advice of a priest from the Sri Maha Mariamman Temple in Johore, another deity -- Lord Murugan–– was installed, and the shrine came to be identified as a Murugan temple since then.
In 1973, the temple was officially registered as the Murugan Hill Temple, located at 9V Sungei Tengah Road, approximately 12½ miles from Chua Chu Kang. A decade later, in 1983, the temple site had to make way for urban redevelopment. After nearly eight years of searching for a suitable location, the temple relocated to its current site on Upper Bukit Timah Road in 1992. A simple consecration ceremony was held in 1993.
The newly constructed temple features a basement that serves as a wedding hall and an upper floor that houses the temple proper. The temple has three sanctums dedicated to Murugan, Vinayagar, and Siva-Shakthi. Other deities worshipped at the temple include Durga, Muneeswaran, Mariamman, Periyachi, Lakshmi-Narayanan, and even Kuan Im, the Chinese goddess of mercy.
The Panguni Uththiram festival, celebrated annually, is a notable event that draws a significant number of devotees to the temple.
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