Sri Srinivasa Perumal Temple
Little India, Singapore, Singapore
- Deities
- Srinivasa Perumal (Vishnu)
- Traditions
- vaishnava
- Worship status
- active
- Coordinates
- 1.3133, 103.8562
- Darshan hours
- Varies by season; consult the temple's own administration for the current daily schedule before visiting.
- Best time to visit
- January/February for Thaipusam, when the temple serves as the starting point of Singapore's kavadi procession; otherwise year-round.
- How to reach
- 397 Serangoon Road, Little India; a short walk from Farrer Park MRT station (North East Line).
- Festivals
- Thaipusam (January/February)
Location
Open in Google MapsSri Srinivasa Perumal Temple, in Singapore’s Little India, traces its origins to land acquired for a Hindu temple in 1851, with construction completed in 1855. It was originally consecrated to Narasimha Perumal, the man-lion avatar of Vishnu, but on the advice of temple elders the principal deity was later changed to Srinivasa Perumal, a form of Vishnu also worshipped elsewhere as Venkateswara/Balaji; subsidiary shrines within the temple also honor Lakshmi, Andal, and Garuda. Its most striking feature, a five-tiered gopuram depicting scenes from Vishnu’s various incarnations, was donated by the early Indian community leader and philanthropist P. Govindasamy Pillai and completed in 1966 at a reported cost of about S$300,000.
Gazetted a National Monument of Singapore on 10 November 1978, the temple remains an active center of Vaishnavite worship in the city-state. It is also the traditional starting point of Singapore’s annual Thaipusam procession, in which devotees carry kavadi in fulfillment of vows on their walk to the Sri Thendayuthapani Temple.
Sources
- historical record: Cross-checked against Wikipedia's account of Sri Srinivasa Perumal Temple during verification pass: confirms land acquired in 1851 and construction completed in 1855; confirms original consecration to Narasimha Perumal, later changed to Srinivasa Perumal on temple elders' advice; confirms subsidiary shrines to Lakshmi, Andal, and Garuda; confirms the five-tiered gopuram donated by P. Govindasamy Pillai, completed in 1966 at a reported cost of about S$300,000; confirms National Monument gazettal on 10 November 1978 (monument no. 17); confirms the temple's role as the traditional starting point of Singapore's annual Thaipusam kavadi procession.