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Once we entered the praying area, SiewPeng told me to look upwards to the ceiling and we found a concave hemisphere shaped circle decorated colourfully with a lantern-shaped lamp in the middle.  The decorations are extremely fine, and form some artistic patterns.  Maybe there are hidden image of gods within the patterns, and each pattern might have its meaning which represent something.

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This is one of the goddesses in this temple called GuanYin.  I believe most of the Buddhist and Chinese know about Her.

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This is how the whole area looks like.

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In the middle and both sides on the left and right, there are a few multilayer structures which each of them made up by thousands of small statues of the Gods, and the lights for their believers to do light offering to their God.

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I have waited there for a few minutes hoping to take some photos without human being, but the visitors and prayers came and gone non stop.  That’s why they all had been captured into my photos.  See, someone was holding incense sticks and praying there.  He must have prayed to the Thean Hou to bless him to have a good life.

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Exactly facing the 3 big statue of goddesses, there are 3 huge doors with pictures of another goddess on each door.

Looking outside the door, I found that there were a couple doing the same thing as we did.  They were looking at the photo they had taken.

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SiewPeng was showing you this is the old style door lock.

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And finally before we left, we did not forget to take a photo of ourselves with the Guan Yin (right) and Thean Hou (left) behind us.  :)