Hindu temple

Sri Mahamariamman Temple

Jalan Tun H.S. Lee, Chinatown, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

It is Kuala Lumpur's oldest and most ornate Hindu temple, founded in 1873, famous for its towering Dravidian style gopuram covered in hundreds of hand painted deity sculptures, and it serves as the starting point of the annual Thaipusam procession to Batu Caves.

Sri Mahamariamman Temple

Sri Mahamariamman Temple Photo by Chainwit., CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Hours

Single report

Daily 6:00am to 8:30pm (Friday until 9:30pm, Saturday until 9pm)

“The temple is open daily from 6am until 8.30pm (Friday until 9.30pm, Saturday until 9pm).”

wonderfulmalaysia.com · Checked 25 Jul 2026

Price

Booking site listing

Free entry, small fee (a few ringgit) for shoe storage

“Free entry; shoe storage charge of 0.2 Malaysian ringgit”

us.trip.com · Checked 25 Jul 2026

Age suitability

Not verified

Not verified. No source we checked states this, so it stays blank instead of guessed.

Checked 25 Jul 2026

Caveats

Re-fetched all three cited sources fresh on 2026-07-25, all loaded successfully with no 404/403/paywall issues, so nothing needed to be nulled for a dead link. Wikipedia confirmed coordinates exactly (3.14333N, 101.69639E) and states the temple is an active functioning place of worship founded 1873, no closure…

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