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The painted front of the Sri Mahamariamman Temple in Kuala Lumpur with its tall gopuram covered in sculpted deities, seen on a sunny day.
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Sri Mahamariamman Temple

Sri Mahamariamman Temple is the oldest Hindu temple in Kuala Lumpur, founded in 1873 by K. Thamboosamy Pillai and on its present site on Jalan Tun H.S. Lee, at the edge of Chinatown, since 1885. The current building dates from 1968; its five-tier gopuram gate tower, 22.9 m high and completed in 1972, carries 228 sculpted figures of Hindu deities.

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