Vihara Avalokitesvara Graha ~ Largest in Southeast Asia. ( In English )

   

       
          Tanjung Pinang city is famous for various iconya like Island Kingdom Biting the mosque of Sultan Riau, Twelve couplets composed by Raja Ali Haji and many more that others, one of which is Vihara Avalokitesvara Graha, Viara famous for its splendor and Largest in Southeast Asia.

   

Gate Vihara Avalokitesvara Graha

     Vihara Avalokitesvara Graha is located 14 Kilo meters from the town of Tanjung Pinang, was not hard to find these icons of the city, a magnificent gate and towering become the hallmark of this temple, two lions welcome visitors to enter the temple area,
Along the way in our eyes will see a vast garden grow diverse plants that one of them is dragon fruit trees.

 

   

The area of ​​the page with the Dragon Tree

     Official Graha Vihara Avalokitesvara in use by people of Chinese descent in July 2009 that they use the temple as a place of worship for people of Chinese descent could also be made for foreign tourists visiting places such as Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand, in this temple we can find Statue goddess Kuan Yin Phu Sha, the statue is made of gold-plated copper with 16.8 meters high as it was named by the Indonesian Museum of Records as the largest sculpture. Aside from being a place of worship for people of Chinese descent, this temple is also made ​​in place deepen religious knowledge.

Statue of Goddess Kuan Yin Sha Phu

      Silence in the atmosphere added decoration wall decoration in the room is very thick at all with the Chinese state, which is where the left and right space lined up facing the statue of the goddess idol statues of the Goddess Kuan Yin Sha Phu. so if you want to feel a slight nuances in the Chinese state is not one of his bintan island we visited this Viara as a form of mutual respect among religions.