Places of Worship & Devotion

This temple is said to be older than the Tua Pek Kong Asajaya nearby, about 20 minutes drive by car from here. In the early days before the construction of the Asajaya / Sadong Jaya coastal highway, devotees nearby had to travel by boat to pay respect here.

Like other Tua Pek Kong temple, Tua Pek Kong Asajaya started as a small wooden temple nearby a small river in Asajaya. The temple was initiated mainly due to many drowning incidents of local children nearby the current location. The current temple was rebuilt on the same location after many years of persistent efforts from local devotees on land issue.

Thai Pak Kung Bintangor was initiated in 1982. In earlier years, devotees in Bintangor had to travel to Sibu Tua Pek Kong to pay respect usually in express boat; The to and fro journey usually took a day . In the 80’s and earlier, land journey between Sibu and Bintangor was very inconvenient before the completion of the Durin Bridge and later the Upper Lanang Bridge across the Rejang River; coupled with the notorious Trans Borneo Highway, express boat transport was by default preferred. Thus, Thai Pak Kung was built. The land was approved earlier in 1978 by the authority, construction works started in 1982 and the temple committee was formed in 1985. Earlier Committee

Ex tracts from 成大宗教與文化學報 第十三期, 2009 年12 月 頁97-138... Investigation into the Belief of Fu De Zheng Shen ( Earth God ) in Malaysia — Especially on Da Bo Gong temple ( Earth God Temple ) in Sarawak Abstract As the largest state of Malaysia, Sarawak located at the northern part of Borneo Island. The belief of Fu De Zheng Shen 福德正神 ( Earth God 土地 神 ) plays an extremely important role among Chinese society of the state mentioned. As the statistics shown, there is over 70 temples mainly consecrate Fu De Zheng Shen and still some uncountable temples proceed with the this Chinese belief. The Belief and the temples not only able to trace back a hundred years long lasting histories, but also suffuse all over the country. This essay is going to discuss about the built up of the Da Bo Gong temple 大伯公 廟, which included the relationship of ship based migration, the origin and argument of the deity, combination of TANG 唐 ( Chinese ) and FAN 番 ( Non-Chinese ) Earth God belief,

The host deity, the Golden Buddha was first found drifting along the Lundu river by a group of Iban boys in 2012. It is now hosted in Poh Lin Shan 保灵山 at the road junction to Serikin in Bau, in a natural limestone cave by devotees. One of the local devotees, Tan, earlier on was already planning for a place of worship in the area; coincidentally, this mysterious Golden Buddha Statue was found, the rest is history. It was said to be floating a thousand miles in the sea, at sitting position, before reaching Lundu. Could this be due to the mega tsunami in 2012? There are many mysterious stories or sayings on this floating Buddha and the limestone cave; one of those is about the mystical sangha shadow glimmering on a limestone wall in the cave, it is believed that the invisible image will only appear to those with faith. Undoubtedly, Poh Lin Shan has added another attraction in Bau recently to both the religious devotees and the tourists, and hopefully continued to bring pro

One of the very few temples in Sarawak hosted with 'Pa Shian' or the Eight Immortals Main Chamber of the Pa Shian Kung, Miri  Main Entrance

From a distance, Fuk Teck Gong temple is floating on water, like a floating lotus. Going to Beliong is a step back in time. Visitors are ferried across the Samarahan River by boatmen in sampans after a leisurely and refreshing drive through the Asajaya countryside. Alighting from the boats, they are greeted by farmers who peddle an array of fresh produce from their farms – sweet corn, pineapples, bananas and coconuts. A cluster of Malay houses emerges from among coconut palms as you walk towards the Kampung. There is no road in Beliong. People walk or cycle. At mid-day, or anytime of the day, the place is quiet. There is no sound of traffic except for the sputtering of the outboard engine from the sampan ferrying visitors to the village or that of the occasional motorbike. This is a place which seems out of this world, spared the trappings of modern development. Meaning of Beliong Beliong in Chinese is Wen Loong. Literally, it means kissing the dragon. But there ar