Sri Srinivasa Perumal Temple, Little India, Singapore Singapore

It is one of the oldest indian temple located in Little India. I felt easy and comfortable to wander around this temple. I was the only tourist (if I'm counted as one) and the rest were worshippers busy with their praying. It's a totally different feeling when I was inside Sri Mariamman Temple, located in Chinatown. This place was quiet and inspiring, with harmonious chanting of the priests in prayer occasionally.

Sri Srinivasa Perumal Temple is a temple complex situated on the Serangoon Road in Little India. Earlier known as Narasinga Perumal Kovil, it was built in 1850s when a group of leaders from the Hindu community purchased a piece of plot from East India Company to convert it into a shrine to Lord Vishnu.

The temple and its precincts came under the control of Mohammedan Hindu Endowments Board in the early 1900s. Later, the board took initiative for the renovation of temple that had only a main hall and pond. As such, it was done up under the supervision of a wealthy merchant, Mr. P Govindasamy Pillai and officially opened in 1965 by the then president of the country, Enche Yusoff Bin Ishak. In 1993, it was registered as a society.

Declared as a national monument in 1978, Sri Srinivasa Perumal Temple is now one of the most significant attractions in the country, and a visit to Little India is incomplete without taking a tour of this astounding structure that has a host of paintings and sculptures.