Air Panas Goddess of Mercy Temple

There is a quaint temple dedicated to the Goddess of Mercy, Kuan Yin, just beside the Air Panas field. According to residents there, the origins of this temple was that of a wooden hut. It was set up when the Air Panas village was formed in the 70s. Sometime in the late 90s, there was a fire which gutted the main temple.

According to the story, when the fire enveloped the temple, which was sandwiched between several timber houses, the owners of the houses prayed hard that the fire would not spread.

Indeed, their prayers were answered and the fire which began at the temple imploded - burnt and collapsed inwards - and did not even singe the nearest house.

It was a tale of miracle so commonly heard of the Goddess of Mercy. The main statue of the Goddess, so said temple caretakers, survived the fire with just a singe on the side - when all the enclosure was reduced to ashes.

The temple pays homage to the Goddess of Mercy three times a year on the 19th day of the second , sixth and ninth lunar month - the latter which falls this Friday.