The heritage-listed See Yup Temple in Raglan Street, South Melbourne, is rising from the ashes of a fire in February.
Join Port Phillip Library Service (PPLS) and Historian and curator Dr Sophie Couchman in exploration of the historical, spiritual and cultural heritage embodied by the temple and its contents.
The See Yup Temple is Australia’s oldest continuously operating Chinese temple. The temple was built in 1866 and holds national significance.
Fortunately, the fire was restricted to the main building, and the Buddhist-Taoist temple’s ancestral halls and adjacent buildings were spared. There was no damage done to the thousands of wooden plaques in the ancestral halls recording the names and places of origin of Chinese immigrants, many of them coming to work at the goldfields.
See Yup Society Vice-President Michael Lam said restoration works are almost ready to begin.
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- Where: Emerald Hill Library
- Cost: free
- Bookings: online via PPLS
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