Taoist temple
Sin Sze Si Ya Temple
Lebuh Pudu, Chinatown, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
It is Kuala Lumpur's oldest Taoist temple, founded in 1864 by the city's own founder Yap Ah Loy and declared a National Heritage Site in 2020, so a visit sits inside the actual origin story of KL rather than a generic Chinatown stop.
Sin Sze Si Ya Temple Photo by Chainwit., CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Hours
Booking site listing7:00 AM to 5:00 PM daily
“Open: 7:00 AM–5:00 PM”
trip.com · Checked 25 Jul 2026
Price
Single reportFree (donations appreciated)
“No, admission is free. Donations are appreciated.”
audiala.com · Checked 25 Jul 2026
Age suitability
Not verifiedNot verified. No source we checked states this, so it stays blank instead of guessed.
Checked 25 Jul 2026
Caveats
Re-fetched all five cited sources fresh on 2026-07-25, confirming the extractor's claims rather than finding hallucination. Trip.com (booking-site) live page reads "Open: 7:00 AM–5:00 PM", matching the recorded hours value exactly, so that field stands as booking-site tier. Audiala (single-report) live page confirms…
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