page_title: Sanggar Agung
section_title: Place of worship
hierarchical_section_title: Sanggar Agung / Social function / Place of worship
caption_attribution_description: English: An Chinese-Indonesian family prays for their deceased members at Sanggar Agung Temple, Surabaya
context_page_description: Sanggar Agung Temple or Hong San Tang is a Chinese temple in Surabaya dedicated to Chinese deities and other Asian religious icons. It is located within the Pantai Ria amusement park and has become a tourist destination, even though it is originally a worship place for Tridharma followers. The name of Sanggar Agung is derived from Indonesian language which can be translated as Great Hall.
  The main icon of this temple is a 20 meters tall statue of Guan Yin on the waterfront, as a symbol that this temple is dedicated to Nan Hai Guan Shi Yin Pu Sa or Guan Yin Bodhisattva of the South Sea. The giant statue was built after one of its employees saw a women dressed in white walking on the sea as she was about closing the temple at night, believed as the appearance of Guan Yin herself. The other icon is the giant Phra Phrom statue covered with gold.
context_section_description: Sanggar Agung Temple is a worship place for Tridharma followers, i.e. the Confucianists, Buddhists (Mahayana), and Taoist. Because Sanggar Agung is located on the sea front, this temple also become a favorite place for Chinese people that pray for their cremated deceased family.
  Even thought Sanggar Agung is the worship place for Tridharma religion, many of its employees and trustees are came from any other religions such as Islam and Christianity. The one who saw Guan Yin walked over the sea at night is a Muslim.
caption: A Chinese family pray for their deceased members at Qingming Festival of 2013 under the Heaven Gate of Sanggar Agung
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