To Temple

On Australia Day (Jan 26th), Ant and I went with my mum to the See Yup Temple in South Melbourne.

The temple sits on Raglan Street and is made up of a line of 5 buildings, all converted into lovely prayer/ tablet rooms.

Besides leaving with a heavy smell of incense clinging to my clothes, skin and hair, I did some research and discovered some interesting facts;

• See Yup means "four districts", after the area in Guangdong (Canton) that members came from
• it is a Buddhist - Taoist temple
• it was build in 1856 by the See Yup Society through compulsory donations
• South Melbourne was once known as Emerald Hill
• there are 13,000 memorial tablets on display

main entrance to See Yup temple