They are painted in a variety of bright colours, which adds to the visually spectacular quality of the gopuram.
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The sculptures are all of plaster, which allows for fine detailing. Flanking the gopuram are a sculpture of Murugan on the right and Krishna on the left (as one enters). This helps to create the illusion of height and adds to the symbolic importance of the building. The scale of each tier and its sculptures is slightly smaller than that of the tier immediately below it. The tower tapers up towards to a moulded ornamental ridge. It is richly embellished with six tiers of sculptures of Hindu deities, other figures and ornamental decorations. He rapidly established himself in business and was identified as a leader of the Indian community.īuilt in the South Indian Dravidian style, this temple features a gopuram that rises above the main entrance along South Bridge Road. Pillai went on to set up the island's first construction company, and also entered the textile trade. Pillai was a government clerk from Penang who arrived in Singapore with Sir Stamford Raffles on his second visit to the island in May 1819. The Sri Mariamman Temple was founded in 1827 by Naraina Pillai, eight years after the East India Company established a trading settlement in Singapore. Sri Mariamman Temple is managed by the Hindu Endowments Board, a statutory board under the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports. Due to its architectural and historical significance, the temple has been gazetted a National Monument and is a major tourist attraction. Located at 244 South Bridge Road, in the downtown Chinatown district, the temple serves the majority Hindu Singaporeans, Tamilians, in the city-state. It is an agamic temple, built in the Dravidian style.
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The Sri Mariamman Temple is Singapore's oldest Hindu temple.