Hwa Chong Temple

PHILIPPINES, Metro Manila, Malabon City

This temple was established in 1951 by monk Xingyuan. He had delegated his abbot duties at Sengguan Temple to monk Ruijin, in order to work on developing Buddhism in the country. Among all the Buddhist temples in the Philippines, Hwa Chong Temple has the most traditional Chinese layout. Hwa Chong Temple and Sengguan Temple are two of the most well-known Buddhist temples in the Philippines.
The temple occupies 3 ha and is constructed in the old Chinese palatial style. It consists of the Great Hero Hall, the memorial hall, the sutra repository, the bell and drum towers, the Patriarch Hall, the relic pagoda and the columbarium pagoda. The five-bay wide Great Hero Hall is two stories high and has a double-eave hip-and-gable roof. The roofs of the buildings are covered with green glazed tiles, complemented with cloud-pattern upturned eaves. The stone pillars of the portico as well as the stone centerpiece on the stairs are both intricately carved.