Mount Erskine Tua Pek Kong Funerary Temple

Mount Erskine Tua Pek Kong Funerary Temple (9 June 2012)


Mount Erskine Tua Pek Kong Funerary Temple (GPS: 5.44093, 100.30268) is a temple within the Mount Erskine Cantonese Cemetery. It is dedicated to the Tua Pek Kong, the Taoist deity that acts as local guardian and protector of the people, in life and in death. At a funerary temple, the Tua Pek Song serves as guardian of the departed.

Within the Mount Erskine Tua Pek Kong Temple are worship halls for Tua Pek Kong as well as for ancestor worship. The halls for ancestor worship house the ancestral tablets of department clan members.

Within a short walk from this temple is another Tua Pek Kong temple. However, that was is for the worship of Tua Pek Kong as guardian of the living.

Tua Pek Kong altar at the Mount Erskine Tua Pek Kong Funerary Temple (9 June 2012)


Ancestral tablets at the Mount Erskine Tua Pek Kong Funerary Temple (9 June 2012)

360° View of Mount Erskine Tua Pek Kong Funerary Temple on Google Street View

Location of the Mount Erskine Tua Pek Kong Funerary Temple

List of Tua Pek Kong Temples in Penang, Chinese Temples in Penang and Chinese Temples in Malaysia

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